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Don Willett
stated on January 12, 2017 in a speech at a Texas Public Policy Foundation event:

"The overwhelming majority of America’s elite universities, they no longer require history majors to take a single course in American history."

By W. Gardner Selby • January 30, 2017
Don Willett
stated on May 13, 2016 in the majority Texas Supreme Court opinion in Texas school finance case:

Before 2005, "the percentage of" Texas high school "students meeting the college readiness standards of the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board stood at 28% in English and 42% in math. Those figures stood at 65% and 66% in 2013."

By W. Gardner Selby • May 20, 2016