FORT WORTH, Texas — What do the authors of the children’s book “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See?” and a 2008 book called “Ethical Marxism: The Categorical Imperative of Liberation” have in common?
Both are named Bill Martin and, for now, neither is being added to Texas schoolbooks.
In their haste to sort out the state’s social studies curriculum standards, the State Board of Education recently tossed children’s author Martin, who died in 2004, from a proposal for the third-grade section. Board member Pat Hardy, who made the motion, cited books he had written for adults that contain “very strong critiques of capitalism and the American system.”
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