textbooks

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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.

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• SOURCE: VOA News
  11-26-18
  

  Are US History Textbooks Obsolete?

  Stanford’s Sam Wineburg suggests that with the Internet there’s no reason for students to lug around big textbooks anymore.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  11-16-18
  

  Texas Students Will Soon Learn Slavery Played A Central Role In The Civil War

  The state's previous social studies standards listed three causes for the Civil War: sectionalism, states' rights and slavery, in that order.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  9-20-18
  

  Leader of Texas Board that dropped Hillary Clinton explains their reasoning

  by Donna Bahorich

  She wrote an op ed for the WaPo. Here’s her explanation.

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• SOURCE: Dallas News
  9-16-18 (accessed)
  

  Texas board votes to eliminate Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller from history curriculum

  As part of an effort to "streamline" the social studies curriculum in public schools, the State Board of Education voted Friday to adjust what students in every grade are required to learn in the classroom.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  8-7-18
  

  Study: American Kids Are Learning Islamophobia From Their Textbooks

  by Melissa Levinson

  "My research on world history textbooks used across the country finds that sections about Islam and the Middle East advance a “rise and fall” narrative."

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• 4-8-18
  

  I Wrote a Textbook. “Fox and Friends” Turned Me into a Villain.

  by James W. Fraser

  “I worry we could be entering a time in which students in some districts will read pro-Trump books and students in other districts will read anti-Trump books.”

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• SOURCE: National Review
  5-1-18
  

  Conservative’s complaint? Liberals have taken over the writing of textbooks

  by Stanley Kurtz

  "The most underappreciated political story of our time is the changing content of K-12 textbooks in history, civics, social studies, and related subjects.” – National Review’s Stanley Kurz

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• SOURCE: The San Francisco Chronicle
  4-26-18
  

  NYU’s James Fraser find himself in a rightwing vortex after Fox News attacks his textbook

  by Jonathan Zimmerman

  Selective quotes taken from the book out of context left a warper impression.

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• SOURCE: The Richmond-Times Dispatch
  4-15-18
  

  Happy slaves? The peculiar story of three Virginia school textbooks

  The textbook said slaves were happy, often referring to them as servants.

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• SOURCE: Austin American-Statesman
  4-10-18
  

  Professor says it's past time for a scholarly textbook history of Texas

  by Cynthia Orozco

  "The Texas State Board of Education must approve Mexican-American studies for Texas schools." – Historian Cynthia Orozco

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• SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education
  4-8-18
  

  Textbook Racism

  by Donald Yacovone

  How scholars sustained white supremacy.

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• SOURCE: ctpost
  3-25-18
  

  Text chosen for Connecticut school’s African American History course stirs controversy

  But what may be more interesting is that only 2 school districts in the country require all students starting to take a half-year course in African-American Studies, Caribbean/Latin-American Studies or Perspectives on Race to graduate.

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• 3-22-18 (accessed)
  

  Jim Loewen is helping teachers teach difficult historical topics tied to race relations

  by James W. Loewen

  It’s part of a new NEA initiative.