1. “Critics Tear into Study Guidelines; Conservatives on State Board Defy Complaints,” Associated Press, May 20, 2010; Dennis Berger, Britine Burton, Bronwen Choate, Laura Muñoz, Julio Noboa, and Margaret Telford, “A Collective Statement on the TEKS by Members of the U.S. History Social Studies Review Committee,” May 18, 2010, 2.
2. Bill Ames, “The Left’s War on History,” 3 parts, November 9–11, 2009,
http://www.texasinsider.org
/?p=18130;
3. Bill Stamps, “More Debate on Social Studies Curriculum,” KUHF Public Radio, February 25, 2010; “TEKS and Textbooks,” Houston PBS, April 9, 2010; Britine Burton, email to Laura Muñoz, April 13, 2010. Deborah Pennington did not sign the “Collective Statement”; Muñoz was unable to locate her after she left her position at Conroe ISD.
4. Laura K. Muñoz, “Desert Dreams: Mexican American Education in Arizona, 1870–1930” (PhD diss., Arizona State University, 2006);
5. Julio Noboa, Leaving Latinos Out of History: Teaching U.S. History in Texas (New York: Routledge, 2006);