{"id":4840,"date":"2013-01-27T16:26:59","date_gmt":"2013-01-27T23:26:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/?p=4840"},"modified":"2013-01-27T16:26:59","modified_gmt":"2013-01-27T23:26:59","slug":"pbs-documentaries-capture-three-american-history-stories-the-revisionaries-henry-ford-space-shuttle-columbia-mission-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2013\/01\/pbs-documentaries-capture-three-american-history-stories-the-revisionaries-henry-ford-space-shuttle-columbia-mission-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"PBS documentaries capture three American history stories: The Revisionaries, Henry Ford, Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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From left to right: David Brown, Rick Husband, Laurel Clark, Kalpana Chawla, Michael Anderson, William C. McCool, Ilan Ramon (NASA\/JPL\/Caltech)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

PBS always has something interesting waiting in the wings. This week, it will broadcast a trifecta of significant documentaries.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Revisionaries\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(Independent Lens)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n10 p.m. Monday (check local listings)<\/p>\n

Of all the films I have seen from PBS\u2019s Independent Lens series, \u201cThe Revisionaries\u201d is the most unsettling. It confirms what I have heard and read over the last few years about the influence of fundamentalist Christians in public education through the narrow focus of creationism, or religious belief, over science and the theory of evolution.<\/p>\n

As public school textbooks go in Texas, so they will go in the rest of the country. Why? Because of the sheer quantities: Five million school kids represent a lot of money for publishers, and they don\u2019t want to publish different editions for various states. Every 10 years, the Texas State Board of Education convenes to write, change or revise textbook standards. The state of California also influences educational publishers, but not to the extent Texas does.<\/p>\n

In \u201cThe Revisionaries,\u201d director Scott Thurman follows four people involved in the Texas State Board of Education over three years. The main one is Don McLeroy, a dentist, Sunday school teacher and an \u201cavowed young-earth creationist,\u201d as he leads the effort to amend the science, social studies and history curriculum of Texas students from kindergarten to 12th grade. His determination to set up a religious explanation for the world as an alternative to a scientific or scientific theoretical explanation for creation in the science curriculum seems to represent the efforts of the majority of board members \u2014 though not all.<\/p>\n

Ron Wetherington, an anthropology professor from Southern Methodist University, argues to no avail that science must counter science and that religion or creationism is not a scientific argument. I watched with amazement as the school board voted to remove the topic of institutionalized racism from the social studies curriculum. As one commentator says, the dominant school board members evidence \u201carrogance and ignorance\u201d as they pick and choose what to include or exclude in public education. If this documentary is to be believed, its contents are nothing less than astounding and provocative.<\/p>\n

\u201cHenry Ford\u201d<\/a>\u00a0(American Experience)\u00a0<\/strong>
\n9 p.m. Tuesday (check local listings)<\/p>\n

This two-hour film documents the life and influence of automaker Henry Ford (1863-1947). Henry was born and raised on a farm outside<\/p>\n

Click here\u00a0PBS History Trifecta: American History Documentaries<\/a>\u00a0to continue reading about Henry Ford and this 10th anniversary program commemorating the Columbia Space Shuttle disaster.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 PBS always has something interesting waiting in the wings. This week, it will broadcast a trifecta of significant documentaries. \u201cThe Revisionaries\u201d\u00a0(Independent Lens)\u00a0 10 p.m. Monday (check local listings) Of all the films I have seen from PBS\u2019s Independent Lens series, \u201cThe Revisionaries\u201d is the most unsettling. It confirms what I have heard and read […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2030,1985,33,75],"tags":[2506,2516,2515,2507,2513,2512,2517,2514,2511,2509,2510,2508],"class_list":["post-4840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adult-faith-formation","category-analysis","category-documentary","category-film-reviews","category-tv-reviews-and-notes","tag-columbia-space-shuttle-disaster","tag-consumerism","tag-fordism","tag-henry-ford-pbs","tag-no-evolution-for-texas-public-schools","tag-no-science-for-texas","tag-planned-obsolescence","tag-public-education-texas","tag-texas-intelligent-design","tag-texas-school-board","tag-texas-text-books","tag-the-revisionaries"],"yoast_head":"\nPBS documentaries capture three American history stories: The Revisionaries, Henry Ford, Space Shuttle Columbia: Mission of Hope<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"  PBS always has something interesting waiting in the wings. 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