Summary Of As Texas Goes So Goes The Nation

While reading the chapter As Texas Goes, So Goes the Nation by: Gene B. Preuss, I found it concerning to learn that we as students, and teachers must subject ourselves to an overindulging of historical content to adhere to the history standards legislated by SBOE.

I agree that teaching history today is overly complex and far to detail for the students to keep. This being said, students are failing to grasp important information about our countries history. The students have been caught in the cross fires in the battle over the standards and are not able to keep up with the broad state standards that the SBOE has adopted. I can sanction that the standards confirm what I am reading and discussing in class because of the nature of the text in regards to TEKS standards. I have participated in many discussion post, and each discussion has been over history that adhered to the standards implemented by the
One example is the discussion over Chapter six-nine which discussed historical events such as Texas and the War with Mexico, the Lincoln Presidency and other major events from that era. We had to do research and show knowledge of information we had learned from one of these events.

I can neither confirm nor contradict the new standards of teaching to classroom experiences. I can however say that this chapter contradicts the information I have read in Hullar and Nelson. Hullar and Nelson gives a brief description of American History that abides to the TEKS guidelines. In the chapter I learned that SBOE are criticized for being overly detailed in regards to the social studies standards. This is also the case for textbooks that placed in our classrooms. While reading As Texas Goes, So Goes the Nation I noted that sociologist James Loewen stated “The books are huge so no publisher will lose and adoption because a book has left out detail of concern to a particular geographical area or group.” (Guess pg sdf). I do not think that we must