textbooks

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• SOURCE: New York Review of Books
  9/5/2022
  

  The Complicity of Textbooks in America's Racism

  by Eric Foner

  Donald Yacovone is an inheritor of the legacy of WEB DuBois, slogging through the nation's history textbooks to identify the propaganda of white supremacy, says reviewer Eric Foner.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Telegraphic Agency
  8/16/2022
  

  Texas District Removes Graphic Version of Diary of Anne Frank

  “It’s disgusting. It’s devastating. It’s legitimate book banning, there’s no way around it,” Laney Hawes, a parent of four children in the Keller district, told JTA about the order. “I feel bad for the teachers and the librarians.”

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  8/15/2022
  

  The Context of the New History Wars is Our Missing Sense of a Shared Past

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Grievances over secular issues like teaching racism have replaced Christian concerns over evolution and prayer in the battles over curriculum. Have advocates of progressive curricula opened the door to this attack by undermining a shared national historical narrative? 

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• SOURCE: Righting America
  8/4/2022
  

  Kathleen Wellman on How the Religious Right Hijacked History

  "These textbooks, unlike the work of historians, dismisses much of human history and denigrates most human accomplishments. Only human efforts undertaken to support 'biblical truth,' meaning evangelical Protestantism, are godly and have any value; all others reflect sinful 'humanism'."

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• SOURCE: The Nation
  5/19/2021
  

  When a Right-Wing Attack on Textbooks Was Stopped

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  A McCarthy-era attack on a leading civics textbook fell short because of both organized resistance and the unpopularity of the ideas behind the ban. Supporters of academic freedom today can potentially draw on both of those elements, too. 

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• 2/20/2022
  

  Lessons from the History Textbook Wars of the 1920s

  by Bruce W. Dearstyne

  Historians helped defuse a national tempest over allegedly unpatriotic textbooks in the 1920s by explaining the nature of professional historical research, interpretation, and dissemination, and insisting on the right and duty of professionals to exert expertise. That kind of work is needed again today. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/1/2022
  

  Glenn Youngkin's No-Guilt History of Virginia for Fragile White People

  With help from historian and Virginian Ty Seidule, Post columnist Dana Milbank asks who is served by recently proposed state laws restricting the teaching of controversial historical topics. 

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• SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
  1/25/2022
  

  Texas Social Studies Curriculum Review Led by Scholar who Called Biden Election a "Literal Coup"

  Stephen Balch, a founder of the conservative National Association of Scholars, is part of the panel advising Texas on its curriculum standards. He has amplified Trump's false claims of election fraud among other controversial positions. 

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• SOURCE: Dallas Morning News
  11/8/2021
  

  Will Texas Legislature Repeat 1962 Hearings on What Schoolkids Read?

  Texas’ House Textbook Investigating Committee held hearings across the state in 1962, which were suddenly halted after they became so rancorous and the lawmakers received threats.

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• SOURCE: Texas Standard
  5/19/2021
  

  Five Things Missing From Asian American History In Texas Schools

  KERA spoke to educators including historian Madeline Hsu about what Texas students are missing out on when it comes to Asian American history. They said the lack of diversity, notable figures and modern-day connection are some of the key issues.

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• SOURCE: The Root
  5/6/2021
  

  We Found the Textbooks of Senators Who Oppose The 1619 Project and Suddenly Everything Makes Sense

  "If The 1619 Project is an attempt to rewrite history, which version of history does the GOP fear is being altered?"

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• 5/9/2021
  

  Are Campus Bookstores Undermining Student Learning?

  by Elizabeth Stice

  Today’s undergraduates are increasingly being cornered into ongoing financial commitments for everything, while they never take possession of anything. Rejecting digital book programs run by campus bookstores outsourced to third parties could help reverse this trend.

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• SOURCE: Phi Delta Kappan
  1/7/2021
  

  The Silence of the Ellipses: Why History Can’t be about Telling Our Children Lies

  by Sam Wineburg

  The fairly recent elevation of Crispus Attucks as a hero of the American Revolution obscures the complexity of his role in the Boston Massacre and illustrates the pressure for textbooks to conform to a triumphal American narrative rather than engaging with the complexity of the past. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  12/22/2020
  

  Billion-Dollar Book Companies Are Ripping Off Public Schools

  Although they tout the advantages of learning technology, major publishers exploit copyright law and licensing agreements to force school districts to pay $27 per student per year for temporary access to digital copies of books like "The Diary of Anne Frank." 

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• SOURCE: Texas Observer
  12/8/2020
  

  The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

  As with social studies, sex education in Texas has been subject to the control of social conservatives in positions of power in the state's educational establishment, demonstrating how the movement has shaped textbooks and curriculum for a generation. This may gradually be changing. 

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• SOURCE: Montgomery Advertiser
  12/3/2020
  

  When the Textbooks Lied, Black Alabamians Turned to Each Other for History

  Edward Ayers and Kevin M. Levin are cited in a discussion of the gradual turn of Alabama's history curriculum away from the Lost Cause mythology and apologetics for slavery. 

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• SOURCE: Jackson Clarion-Ledger
  12/2/2020
  

  The Story of a 1970s Mississippi Textbook that Changed how Students Learned about their Past

  Contemporary historians look back on the long struggle to unseat the "Lost Cause" myth and other white supremacist ideas from the state's history curriculum that began with the introduction of "Mississippi: Conflict and Change" to state high schools in 1980.

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• SOURCE: Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)
  11/17/2020
  

  Whose History? AI Uncovers Who Gets Attention in High School Textbooks

  Natural language processing reveals huge differences in how Texas history textbooks treat men, women, and people of color.

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• SOURCE: Made by History at The Washington Post
  10/19/2020
  

  Conservative Activists in Texas Have Shaped the History All American Children Learn

  by Rob Alex Fitt

  "Liberal groups such as People for the American Way were aghast at what was happening in Texas. They launched counter campaigns in the early 1970s to try to break conservative activists’ stranglehold on the textbook selection process, to no avail."

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• SOURCE: Skipped History
  10/15/2020
  

  How Mississippi Got Away with Teaching Racist History (Skipped History)

  It took litigation to drag Mississippi's history instruction out of the Lost Cause mythology.