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No Comment Necessary: Texas GOP's 2012 Platform Opposes Teaching "Critical Thinking Skills" - NYTimes.com
nutjobsThe Republican Party of Texas's 2012 platform has a plank on "Knowledge-Based Education" that reads:
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.
It also says, "[e]very Republican is responsible for implementing this platform." Party spokespersons say the plank should not have included the line on "critical thinking," but that it will remain unchanged until 2014.