>Teachers, you may want to be sitting down for this one.
>The 2012 Texas Republican Party Platform, adopted June 9 at the state convention in Forth Worth, seems to take a stand against, well, the teaching of critical thinking skills. Read it for yourself:
>"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."
Careful, you're going to trigger the conservative anti-thinking brigade's thoughtless criticism by undermining their authority!
https://www.pressherald.com/2024/01/27/opinion-critical-thin...
>Opinion: Critical thinking is authoritarians’ kryptonite; let’s use it.
>The culture of MAGA Republicans is antithetical to critical thinking. Which is exactly why the rest of us need to insist on it.
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/texas-gop-no-more-c...
>Texas GOP: No More Critical Thinking in Schools
>Teachers, you may want to be sitting down for this one.
>The 2012 Texas Republican Party Platform, adopted June 9 at the state convention in Forth Worth, seems to take a stand against, well, the teaching of critical thinking skills. Read it for yourself:
>"We oppose the teaching of Higher Order Thinking Skills (HOTS) (values clarification), critical thinking skills and similar programs that are simply a relabeling of Outcome-Based Education (OBE) (mastery learning) which focus on behavior modification and have the purpose of challenging the student’s fixed beliefs and undermining parental authority."