Texas textbook culture wars continue (1 Viewer)

joffer said:

http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/FINAL_executivesummary.pdf?docID=4625

From the executive summary

• Two government textbooks include misleading information that undermines the Constitutional concept of the separation of church and state.

• Several world history and world geography textbooks include biased statements that inappropriately portray Islam and Muslims negatively.

• All of the world geography textbooks inaccurately downplay the role that conquest played in the spread of Christianity.

• Several world geography and history textbooks suffer from an incomplete – and often inaccurate – account of religions other than Christianity.

• Coverage of key Christian concepts and historical events are lacking in a few textbooks, often due to the assumption that all students are Christians and already familiar with Christian events and doctrine.

• A few government and U.S. history textbooks suffer from an uncritical celebration of the free enterprise system, both by ignoring legitimate problems that exist in capitalism and failing to include coverage of government’s role in the U.S. economic system.

• One government textbook flirts with contemporary Tea Party ideology, particularly regarding the inclusion of anti-taxation and anti-regulation arguments.

• One world history textbook includes outdated – and possibly offensive – anthropological categories and racial terminology in describing African civilizations.

• A number of U.S. history textbooks evidence a general lack of attention to Native American peoples and culture and occasionally include biased or misleading information.

• One government textbook (Pearson) includes a biased – verging on offensive – treatment of affirmative action.

• Most U.S. history textbooks do a poor job of covering the history of LGBT citizens in discussions of efforts to achieve civil rights in this country.

• Elements of the Texas curriculum standards give undue legitimacy to neo-Confederate arguments about “states’ rights” and the legacy of slavery in the South. While most publishers avoid problems with these issues, passages in a few U.S. history and government textbooks give a nod to these misleading arguments.

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matuski said:

joffer said:

http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/FINAL_executivesummary.pdf?docID=4625

From the executive summary

• Two government textbooks include misleading information that undermines the Constitutional concept of the separation of church and state.

• Several world history and world geography textbooks include biased statements that inappropriately portray Islam and Muslims negatively.

• All of the world geography textbooks inaccurately downplay the role that conquest played in the spread of Christianity.

• Several world geography and history textbooks suffer from an incomplete – and often inaccurate – account of religions other than Christianity.

• Coverage of key Christian concepts and historical events are lacking in a few textbooks, often due to the assumption that all students are Christians and already familiar with Christian events and doctrine.

• A few government and U.S. history textbooks suffer from an uncritical celebration of the free enterprise system, both by ignoring legitimate problems that exist in capitalism and failing to include coverage of government’s role in the U.S. economic system.

• One government textbook flirts with contemporary Tea Party ideology, particularly regarding the inclusion of anti-taxation and anti-regulation arguments.

• One world history textbook includes outdated – and possibly offensive – anthropological categories and racial terminology in describing African civilizations.

• A number of U.S. history textbooks evidence a general lack of attention to Native American peoples and culture and occasionally include biased or misleading information.

• One government textbook (Pearson) includes a biased – verging on offensive – treatment of affirmative action.

• Most U.S. history textbooks do a poor job of covering the history of LGBT citizens in discussions of efforts to achieve civil rights in this country.

• Elements of the Texas curriculum standards give undue legitimacy to neo-Confederate arguments about “states’ rights” and the legacy of slavery in the South. While most publishers avoid problems with these issues, passages in a few U.S. history and government textbooks give a nod to these misleading arguments.

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Truly not as concerned about this stuff as I am regarding Science curriculum. Kids in Texas are going to be raised in an overwhelmingly conservative environment.. nothing you can do about that. Parents can easily override the nonsense listed above. Half truths and misinformation regarding religion are unavoidable period, and if my kids go through 5th grade with some misconceptions on capitalism, I think they will survive.

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Olaf said:

Meanwhile, in DC public schools...

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Officer Pete Malloy said:

matuski said:

joffer said:

http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/FINAL_executivesummary.pdf?docID=4625

From the executive summary

• Two government textbooks include misleading information that undermines the Constitutional concept of the separation of church and state.

• Several world history and world geography textbooks include biased statements that inappropriately portray Islam and Muslims negatively.

• All of the world geography textbooks inaccurately downplay the role that conquest played in the spread of Christianity.

• Several world geography and history textbooks suffer from an incomplete – and often inaccurate – account of religions other than Christianity.

• Coverage of key Christian concepts and historical events are lacking in a few textbooks, often due to the assumption that all students are Christians and already familiar with Christian events and doctrine.

• A few government and U.S. history textbooks suffer from an uncritical celebration of the free enterprise system, both by ignoring legitimate problems that exist in capitalism and failing to include coverage of government’s role in the U.S. economic system.

• One government textbook flirts with contemporary Tea Party ideology, particularly regarding the inclusion of anti-taxation and anti-regulation arguments.

• One world history textbook includes outdated – and possibly offensive – anthropological categories and racial terminology in describing African civilizations.

• A number of U.S. history textbooks evidence a general lack of attention to Native American peoples and culture and occasionally include biased or misleading information.

• One government textbook (Pearson) includes a biased – verging on offensive – treatment of affirmative action.

• Most U.S. history textbooks do a poor job of covering the history of LGBT citizens in discussions of efforts to achieve civil rights in this country.

• Elements of the Texas curriculum standards give undue legitimacy to neo-Confederate arguments about “states’ rights” and the legacy of slavery in the South. While most publishers avoid problems with these issues, passages in a few U.S. history and government textbooks give a nod to these misleading arguments.

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Truly not as concerned about this stuff as I am regarding Science curriculum. Kids in Texas are going to be raised in an overwhelmingly conservative environment.. nothing you can do about that. Parents can easily override the nonsense listed above. Half truths and misinformation regarding religion are unavoidable period, and if my kids go through 5th grade with some misconceptions on capitalism, I think they will survive.

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This is pretty much all bull####.

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matuski said:

Officer Pete Malloy said:

matuski said:

joffer said:

http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/FINAL_executivesummary.pdf?docID=4625

From the executive summary

• Two government textbooks include misleading information that undermines the Constitutional concept of the separation of church and state.

• Several world history and world geography textbooks include biased statements that inappropriately portray Islam and Muslims negatively.

• All of the world geography textbooks inaccurately downplay the role that conquest played in the spread of Christianity.

• Several world geography and history textbooks suffer from an incomplete – and often inaccurate – account of religions other than Christianity.

• Coverage of key Christian concepts and historical events are lacking in a few textbooks, often due to the assumption that all students are Christians and already familiar with Christian events and doctrine.

• A few government and U.S. history textbooks suffer from an uncritical celebration of the free enterprise system, both by ignoring legitimate problems that exist in capitalism and failing to include coverage of government’s role in the U.S. economic system.

• One government textbook flirts with contemporary Tea Party ideology, particularly regarding the inclusion of anti-taxation and anti-regulation arguments.

• One world history textbook includes outdated – and possibly offensive – anthropological categories and racial terminology in describing African civilizations.

• A number of U.S. history textbooks evidence a general lack of attention to Native American peoples and culture and occasionally include biased or misleading information.

• One government textbook (Pearson) includes a biased – verging on offensive – treatment of affirmative action.

• Most U.S. history textbooks do a poor job of covering the history of LGBT citizens in discussions of efforts to achieve civil rights in this country.

• Elements of the Texas curriculum standards give undue legitimacy to neo-Confederate arguments about “states’ rights” and the legacy of slavery in the South. While most publishers avoid problems with these issues, passages in a few U.S. history and government textbooks give a nod to these misleading arguments.

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Truly not as concerned about this stuff as I am regarding Science curriculum. Kids in Texas are going to be raised in an overwhelmingly conservative environment.. nothing you can do about that. Parents can easily override the nonsense listed above. Half truths and misinformation regarding religion are unavoidable period, and if my kids go through 5th grade with some misconceptions on capitalism, I think they will survive.

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This is pretty much all bull####.

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Bigger deal to you?

Don't inject religious/political crap into the science curriculum and I'm good.. Otherwise I don't see how it is possible to avoid bias in Historical accounts. Just not worried about it.

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Olaf said:

Meanwhile, in DC public schools...

Link

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joffer said:

http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/FINAL_executivesummary.pdf?docID=4625

From the executive summary

• Two government textbooks include misleading information that undermines the Constitutional concept of the separation of church and state.

• Several world history and world geography textbooks include biased statements that inappropriately portray Islam and Muslims negatively.

• All of the world geography textbooks inaccurately downplay the role that conquest played in the spread of Christianity.

• Several world geography and history textbooks suffer from an incomplete – and often inaccurate – account of religions other than Christianity.

• Coverage of key Christian concepts and historical events are lacking in a few textbooks, often due to the assumption that all students are Christians and already familiar with Christian events and doctrine.

• A few government and U.S. history textbooks suffer from an uncritical celebration of the free enterprise system, both by ignoring legitimate problems that exist in capitalism and failing to include coverage of government’s role in the U.S. economic system.

• One government textbook flirts with contemporary Tea Party ideology, particularly regarding the inclusion of anti-taxation and anti-regulation arguments.

• One world history textbook includes outdated – and possibly offensive – anthropological categories and racial terminology in describing African civilizations.

• A number of U.S. history textbooks evidence a general lack of attention to Native American peoples and culture and occasionally include biased or misleading information.

• One government textbook (Pearson) includes a biased – verging on offensive – treatment of affirmative action.

• Most U.S. history textbooks do a poor job of covering the history of LGBT citizens in discussions of efforts to achieve civil rights in this country.

• Elements of the Texas curriculum standards give undue legitimacy to neo-Confederate arguments about “states’ rights” and the legacy of slavery in the South. While most publishers avoid problems with these issues, passages in a few U.S. history and government textbooks give a nod to these misleading arguments.

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Gawain said:

The LGBT issues:

Harvey Milk was only one of the first elected gay leaders.

The Stonewall Rebellion, which I'm surprised as heck got mentioned (was never in any of my textbooks) is included in the social upheaval portion of the 60s/70s and it's not right to categorize a riot over gay rights with SDS activity.

Oh and there's not enough time spent on what AIDS did to gays.

I do agree with the report that the time is past for referring to folks as "members of the Negro race," so it's not all bad I suppose.

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meatwad1 said:

Additionally, you would be lucky to get many high school kids outside of those who take AP classes to absorb any of your list in the proper historical context. It really does not matter what is in the text book. Half of the kids are not learning it regardless of who is featured.

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meatwad1 said:

Gawain said:

The LGBT issues:

Harvey Milk was only one of the first elected gay leaders.

The Stonewall Rebellion, which I'm surprised as heck got mentioned (was never in any of my textbooks) is included in the social upheaval portion of the 60s/70s and it's not right to categorize a riot over gay rights with SDS activity.

Oh and there's not enough time spent on what AIDS did to gays.

I do agree with the report that the time is past for referring to folks as "members of the Negro race," so it's not all bad I suppose.

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All events that should be reserved for an edition of Trivial Pursuit in my opinion.

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Officer Pete Malloy said:

matuski said:

Officer Pete Malloy said:

matuski said:

joffer said:

http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/FINAL_executivesummary.pdf?docID=4625

From the executive summary

• Two government textbooks include misleading information that undermines the Constitutional concept of the separation of church and state.

• Several world history and world geography textbooks include biased statements that inappropriately portray Islam and Muslims negatively.

• All of the world geography textbooks inaccurately downplay the role that conquest played in the spread of Christianity.

• Several world geography and history textbooks suffer from an incomplete – and often inaccurate – account of religions other than Christianity.

• Coverage of key Christian concepts and historical events are lacking in a few textbooks, often due to the assumption that all students are Christians and already familiar with Christian events and doctrine.

• A few government and U.S. history textbooks suffer from an uncritical celebration of the free enterprise system, both by ignoring legitimate problems that exist in capitalism and failing to include coverage of government’s role in the U.S. economic system.

• One government textbook flirts with contemporary Tea Party ideology, particularly regarding the inclusion of anti-taxation and anti-regulation arguments.

• One world history textbook includes outdated – and possibly offensive – anthropological categories and racial terminology in describing African civilizations.

• A number of U.S. history textbooks evidence a general lack of attention to Native American peoples and culture and occasionally include biased or misleading information.

• One government textbook (Pearson) includes a biased – verging on offensive – treatment of affirmative action.

• Most U.S. history textbooks do a poor job of covering the history of LGBT citizens in discussions of efforts to achieve civil rights in this country.

• Elements of the Texas curriculum standards give undue legitimacy to neo-Confederate arguments about “states’ rights” and the legacy of slavery in the South. While most publishers avoid problems with these issues, passages in a few U.S. history and government textbooks give a nod to these misleading arguments.

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Truly not as concerned about this stuff as I am regarding Science curriculum. Kids in Texas are going to be raised in an overwhelmingly conservative environment.. nothing you can do about that. Parents can easily override the nonsense listed above. Half truths and misinformation regarding religion are unavoidable period, and if my kids go through 5th grade with some misconceptions on capitalism, I think they will survive.

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This is pretty much all bull####.

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Bigger deal to you?

Don't inject religious/political crap into the science curriculum and I'm good.. Otherwise I don't see how it is possible to avoid bias in Historical accounts. Just not worried about it.

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You cannot avoid slipping in a little bias into History/Govt/Econ but what is happening in Texas egregious. It is intellectually dishonest and pretty much is an insult to public education everywhere.

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