textbooks

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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. 

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  9/4/2020
  

  How Textbooks Taught White Supremacy

  "I came across one textbook that declared on its first page, “This is the White Man’s History.” At that point, you had to be a dunce not to see what these books were teaching."

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• SOURCE: NBC Chicago
  8/2/2020
  

  Chicago-Area Leaders Call for Illinois to Halt History Classes Until Curriculum is Updated

  At a news conference, State Rep. LaShawn K. Ford said current history teachings lead to a racist society and overlook the contributions of women and minorities.

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• SOURCE: CNN
  7/23/2020
  

  This One Letter In A Textbook Could Change How Millions Of Kids Learn About Race

  Albert Broussard is a history professor and a textbook writer for McGraw Hill. Broussard plans to capitalize the b in Black in the most recent revision of a middle and high school history textbook.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/9/2020
  

  How a History Textbook Would Describe 2020 So Far

  by James West Davidson

  A historian imagines the chapter high schoolers might read one day about this momentous time.

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  5/27/2020
  

  All the History I Learned in my Youth Came from the American Girl Doll Books

  Learning about history can come from unexpected places. The information booklets sold with the author's dolls may have drawn on more historians' expertise than her school textbooks did. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  1/16/20
  

  How Political Divides Shape U.S. History Lessons

  Partisan politics are making their way into school textbooks, reports The New York Times. We dig into the report.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/13/20
  

  Historians Respond to NY Times Article on History Textbook Regional Differences

  Featuring Kevin Kruse and other educators. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  1/12/20
  

  Two States. Eight Textbooks. Two American Stories.

  American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/26/19
  

  How history textbooks reflect America’s refusal to reckon with slavery

  by Cynthia Greenlee

  Textbooks have been slow to incorporate black humanity in their slavery narratives. And they still have a long way to go.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/15/19
  

  Students and Parents Push for Better Textbooks to Help Fight Hate and Stereotypes

  Students, parents and educators are calling for material that reflects a diversity of experiences, saying it’s a matter of providing a fuller telling of history.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  12-7-2018
  

  How to Teach the Civil War in the Deep South

  One veteran Mississippi teacher is forgoing textbooks for the local archives.

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• SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
  11-29-18
  

  Report: Quebec high school history textbooks are ‘fundamentally flawed’ and should be removed

  Students in the Grade 9 and 10 Canadian and Quebec history classes are being taught a “skewed, one-sided view of the past that distorts the historical record,” according to the committee report.