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Calif. Debates Place of Gay History in Textbooks
By not in system - AOL NewsSAN FRANCISCO, Calif. -- California conservatives were outraged in 1966 when the state Board of Education adopted a new junior high school history textbook. The book's inclusive treatment of the civil rights movement and influential black Americans would indoctrinate students, undermine religious values and politicize the curriculum, they said. Forty-five years later, gay rights advocates say similar arguments are being advanced to defeat a bill that would make the state the first to require the teaching of gay history in public schools. The California Senate approved the landmark measure ...
Homepage High: Teachers, Computers, No Textbooks
By Dana Chivvis - AOL NewsPart 1 of a three-part series on joining the digital learning revolution in America. NEW YORK -- Anastacia Brie, a science teacher at New York City's Hudson High School of Learning Technologies, recently realized why she wasn't tripping over backpacks in her classroom anymore. Her students' bags no longer hold textbooks. This seemingly insignificant detail belies a new approach to learning that's changing the look and feel of classrooms nationwide. There are no textbooks at Hudson High School because the content is entirely digital. The school (originally called Homepage High School) opened ...
Report: More 'Glaring' Errors in Va. History Textbook
By Mara Gay - AOL NewsThe Virginia history textbook that raised eyebrows when it claimed that large numbers of black soldiers fought for the South during the Civil War is under scrutiny again, after a review of the book found dozens of errors that historians call disturbing. Among the mistakes: the claim that 12 states joined the Confederacy, not 11, and that 6,000 soldiers died during the Battle of Bull Run during the Civil War, instead of 22,000. Three of the five historians who reviewed "Our Virginia: Past and Present" at the request of the state board of education said they were appalled. "I absolutely could ...
Report: Anti-Semitic, Anti-Gay Saudi Textbooks Used in UK
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsLONDON (Nov. 22) -- Saudi Arabian textbooks filled with anti-Semitic and homophobic material are being used in British classrooms, according to a BBC documentary. The program, due to air tonight, found that around 5,000 British Muslim children were being taught that the "main goal" of the Jews is to "have control over the world and its resources," and that anyone found guilty of gay sex should be stoned or burned to death, or thrown off a cliff. Other textbooks explain how the hands and feet of thieves are chopped off, and their stumps cauterized to prevent them "bleeding to death." The ...
Va. Textbook Claims 'Thousands' of Blacks Fought for South
By Mara Gay - AOL News(Oct. 20) -- A claim in a new fourth-grade textbook used in Virginia public schools that "thousands" of blacks fought for the Confederate Army during the Civil War has scholars up in arms. The Washington Post reports that the Virginia Department of Education is warning its educators to avoid a single sentence in the textbook "Our Virginia: Past and Present," by Joy Masoff: "Thousands of Southern blacks fought in the Confederate ranks, including two black battalions under the command of Stonewall Jackson." Sponsored Links Historians say that claim is misleading, if not entirely unfounded. ...
Texas Board of Ed Votes to Correct 'Pro-Islam' Textbooks
By Steven Hoffer - AOL News(Sept. 24) -- The Texas State Board of Education approved a resolution today that requires publishers to correct a "pro-Islamic/anti-Christian bias" in future world history textbooks. The resolution, which narrowly passed 7-6, cites instances of an alleged emphasis on unfavorable events in Christian history as told in school textbooks, while claiming that the same textbooks gloss over similar events in Islamic history. "What we're trying to do is prohibit and send a clear message to the publishers that [the bias] should not happen in the future," board member Terri Leo said. The Lone Star ...
Texas Textbooks Massacre: Not So Scary After All
By Joe Keohane - AOL News(May 25) -- Late last week, the Texas Board of Education, in a party line vote, passed a series of controversial changes to the state's social studies standards. Among them: Joseph McCarthy was right, Thomas Jefferson was wrong, etc. Board members had also attempted to rechristen the slave trade the "Atlantic triangular trade," perhaps in the hopes of casting that tragedy in geometric, rather than human, terms to ease those unpleasant pangs of culpability. That one didn't make the cut. Texas' move outraged educators and historians all over the country, as well as some politicians. ...
Texas Board OKs Big Changes to Textbooks
By not in system - AOL News(May 21) -- The Texas State Board of Education adopted a social studies and history curriculum Friday that amends or waters down the teaching of the civil rights movement, slavery, America's relationship with the U.N. and hundreds of other items. The ideological debate over the guidelines, which drew intense scrutiny beyond Texas, will be used to teach some 4.8 million Texas students for the next 10 years. The standards also will be used by textbook publishers who often develop materials for other states based on those approved in Texas, although teachers in the Lone Star state have latitude ...
Texas School Board to Vote on Textbook Changes Today
By Mara Gay - AOL News(May 21) -- The Texas Board of Education is teaching students a lesson about how to stand their ground. The conservative-dominated school board is expected to approve changes to the state's history textbooks in a final vote today, rejecting protests from historians and civil rights leaders who say the new curriculum is overtly political and de-emphasizes the role of blacks, Hispanics and other minority groups. Its decision is expected to have influence far outside Texas because of the state's major impact on the nation's textbook publishers. Under the proposals, Texas students will soon ...
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