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Posted by Trainee in World War II , the past , The Ministry of Education , Textbooks , Textbook , Jews , Israel , holocaust , history , events , curriculum
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Source: Haaretz; June 28,2010
Education Ministry says it takes 20-30 years to arrive at a historical perspective suitable for teaching young students.The first Lebanon war and the Oslo Accords are missing from Israeli history textbooks, Haaretz has learned, while more recent events, such as the signing of the peace agreement with Jordan, are included.
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Posted by Trainee in USA , United States , the past , the constitution , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , syllabus , students , Stalin , Soviet Union , Soviet , schools , Russia , identity , gulag , Founding Fathers , events , Europe , education , curriculum , communism , Cold War , church , China , British
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Source:BBC; June 28,2010
Why rewrite history books - to accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative for the good of the nation, asks David Cannadine in his Point of View column.
According to a newspaper report last week, the Russian authorities have recently gathered together a group of academics to draw up a school textbook that would present an approved version of the complex and controversial events that make up Russian history.
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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: HNN; June 1, 2010
Pop quiz: Does the school curriculum adopted in Texas really wind up in textbooks nationwide? If you answered yes, you might get a failing grade. As the second-largest purchaser of textbooks behind California, the Lone Star State has historically wielded enormous clout in deciding what material appears in classrooms across the country.
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Posted by Trainee in World War II , US history , United States , truth , the past , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , students , slavery , schools , republican , propaganda , politics , Law , Korea , Japan , ideology , history education , Germany , communism , American history
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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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Posted by Trainee in United States , Textbooks , Textbook , Texas , students , slavery , Obama , liberal , history , democracy , curriculum , controversial , conservative , American history
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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: The Dong- A Ilbo; 17 May 2010
The Yokohama branch of the Japan Teachers’ Union has reportedly boycotted middle school history textbooks adopted by the city office of education, and created its own material for teachers. The teacher`s union branch said the textbooks made by right-wing groups contain many inaccuracies, including the Japanese government’s attempt to legitimize the country’s past aggression in Asia.
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Source: Asia Times; April 9, 2010
In the summer of 2007, 34 Japanese and Korean scholars were selected to participate in the second round of the Japan-South Korea joint history project. Since the release of their report in late March, it is becoming clear that very little progress has been made - many of the same issues from the first round of this project which commenced in 2001 remain unresolved. The first round report was issued in 2005.
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Posted by Trainee in Textbooks , Stalinism , Stalin , Soviet Union , Russia , Putin , Poland , nazis , Katyn , events , Europe , democracy , debate , communism
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Source: The Washington Post; April 6, 2020
In this era of commerce and trade, it often happens that countries that might once have gone to war play out their antagonisms through other means. The immigration debate plays this role in Mexican American relations. For a time, the trade dispute over soft wood lumber (yes, really) fulfilled this function in Canadian American relations: At stake were different attitudes toward the role of government in industry, Canada's sensitivity to American economic power and many other issues, though you wouldn't know it if you weren't paying attention.
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Source: News Times; March 29, 2010
In Sunday's News-Times (March 21), liberal historian Jonathan Zimmerman acknowledges that there is a liberal theme in most American history textbooks. What he fails to note is that the liberal script is inherently optimistic assuming that we progress toward the fulfillment of the promise of the Declaration of Independence.
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