textbook

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• SOURCE: NYT
  11-28-16
  

  Amid Scandal, South Korean Officials Retreat on Controversial Textbook Plan

  The South Korean government indicated on Monday that it was rolling back its plan to require schools to use only state-issued history textbooks, an apparent shift for a signature project of President Park Geun-hye as she faces a corruption scandal and an escalating public backlash.

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• SOURCE: KABB
  11-17-16
  

  Texas board votes to reject criticized Mexican-American book

  The Texas Board of Education has unanimously rejected a Mexican-American studies textbook that experts say is rife with factual errors and anti-Hispanic bias.

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• SOURCE: Texas Monthly
  10-6-16
  

  Proposed Mexican-American Heritage Textbook Is A Continuation Of The Problem With U.S. History Classes

  by Doyin Oyeniyi

  When U.S. history is already whitewashed, a book about Mexican-Americans that relies on stereotypes only does more harm.

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  9-19-16
  

  Beyond Textbooks: Massachusetts Schools Find New Ways To Teach Racial History

  Textbooks are often thought of as a critical tool for teachers in the classroom. But when it comes to teaching the history of race in the United States, WBUR has found that more and more teachers in Massachusetts are moving away from traditional textbooks.

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• SOURCE: American Historical Association website
  9-14-16
  

  AHA notes criticism of Texas history textbook

  The AHA cites a report that the book is “a polemic attempting to masquerade as a textbook.”

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9-13-16
  

  Texas Textbook 'Dripping With Racism' Opposed at Hearing, Awaits Vote

  The book, Mexican American Heritage, published by Momentum Instruction, was found to have 68 factual errors and 73 interpretive and omission errors by an ad hoc committee of scholars assembled by board member Ruben Cortez Jr.

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• SOURCE: KXAN
  9-6-16
  

  Proposed textbook ‘dripping in racism,’ state board member says

  A group of educators and students called on the State Board of Education to keep a controversial Mexican American studies textbook out of Texas classrooms.

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher ED
  3-8-16
  

  McGraw-Hill literally to trash its own textbook after complaints of anti-Semitism

  The political science textbook included maps showing Israel belonged originally to Palestinians.

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• SOURCE: KTRK
  10-3-15
  

  Textbook publisher apologizes for passage referring to slavery as immigration

  McGraw-Hill issued its apology after a Texas mom complained about the book her child was assigned in school.

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• 4-26-15
  

  Thomas A. Bailey: Dead and Forgotten by His Publisher?

  by Ray Raphael

  His name has been dropped from the textbook he wrote.