European Association of History Educators

Source: Consortiumnews; 26 May, 2010

Right-wingers running the influential Texas board that shapes how America’s school textbooks will teach history are demanding that Ronald Reagan and other modern Republicans be elevated into the pantheon of heroes, that “free market” ideology must be stressed, and that critical information about past U.S. actions must be deleted.  The purpose is to indoctrinate American children with a “patriotic” version of history, all the better to ensure future right-wing dominance of U.S. politics. However, veteran teacher Rosemarie Jackowski notes that propaganda by American school systems already has a dark legacy.

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Source: Times Colonist; 25 May, 2010

NEW YORK - American students will learn more about the virtues of free enterprise, Biblical values and the Confederacy's cause, and less about slavery and civil rights in a controversial new curriculum being pushed through by the Texas school board. Members of the state's board of education approved a new history and social studies curriculum on Friday for the state's 4.8 million state school students.

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Source: Mail Online; 19 April, 2010

For more than half a century, most intelligent children in Britain have grown up to live in the half-darkness of historical ignorance. The result is generations of adults who, having left school, mourn their lack of knowledge about the past but don't know how to remedy it and are soon busy with children of their own.

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