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Who do we trust to influence what goes into our school textbooks? In Texas, it’s Don McLeroy, an unabashed creationist who chairs the Texas Board of Education. Up for re-election, he has a fervent mission to put his version of history and science into every textbook in America. As a leader in the textbook market, the Texas Board of Education has powerful sway. Once every decade, the highly politicized board rewrites the teaching and textbook standards for its nearly five million schoolchildren. As McLeroy’s campaign begins and the 15-member board goes head to head, historical and scientific fact blur with opinion, and the confidence one might have had in the board to make educated contributions plummets to an almost amusing yet certainly terrifying low. Revisionaries is a must-see documentary that takes you to the frontlines of a battle between the theory of evolution and creationism in a rewriting of US history. Heather Haynes

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