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History Education in the News
News and Discussion on developments in the world of History Education.
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Posted by Trainee in world history , the past , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , teachers , students , liberal , history education , history , education , curriculum , conservative , civics , church , bias
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Source: The Depaulia; 9 June, 2010
Changes to Texas textbooks have caused outrage across the country. On May 21, the 15-member Texas Board of Education voted 9-5 to pass new standards that apply to all civics classes. The board argued that the teachers that wrote the curriculum were too liberally biased and believe the corrections they made to include Republican political philosophies and the portrayal of conservatives in a more positive light.
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Source: HOUSTON CHRONCLE, March 22, 2010
In regard to “New standards in history class; Conservative-backed curriculum OK'd over protests: (Page A1, March 13), the news that the social studies curriculum is being rewritten by the conservative State Board of Education demonstrates two things to me. First, that the relationship between insufficiently rigorous, biased education and religious conservatism is not just a one-way causation but truly a vicious cycle. Second, that having partisan nonexperts decide what our children learn is a disgrace to any self-respecting state.
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Posted by Trainee in World War II , Textbook , Texas , schools , religion , Law , ideology , Hispanic , education , debate , curriculum , bias
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Source: Chron; March 16, 2010
AUSTIN — The State Board of Education's Hispanic and African-American members clashed with its Anglo majority for hours Thursday over how to present history to the state's 4.7 million public school children. Much of the conflict centered on the racial balance of the historical figures to be included in textbooks starting in the 2011-2012 school year. Tempers boiled over when sex or religion were added to the mix. Members grew increasingly distraught over the process as they moved toward a preliminary adoption of new social studies curriculum standards, set for today.
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Posted by Trainee in Textbook , Texas , teachers , students , schools , religious , reform , Law , ideology , identity , exams , education , debate , curriculum , culture , controversial , civil rights , bias
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Source: The Rebel Yell; March 16, 2010
Defining requirements would improve quality, reduce bias in teaching. When I was growing up, it always seemed to me that teachers and textbooks were an infallible source of knowledge. Textbooks, dry and authoritative, weren’t even meant to be read straight through, but consulted for pearls of wisdom that were faithfully jotted down verbatim to earn yet another check-plus. Perhaps that unyielding gullibility is what has made curriculum content so controversial.
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Source: The Hankyoreh; March 2nd 2010
In the upper left panel, Japanese man is dressed as Nazi to represent Japan as a colonizer prior to World War II and holds up a distorted history textbook. In the upper right panel, a Chinese man is dressed in traditional clothing and holds up a textbook representing what he is misleadingly calling a fair representation of Northeast Asian history.
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