Posted on 04/18/2008 1:27:51 PM PDT by Sopater
Have a look at the links in post #11.
The text that they claim is “too conservative” simply questions whether or not the science about global warming is settled. The book opines that there are still questions about it. It’s about as unbiased as it could be!
Unbelievable that this is what they are bothered about.
Horne is also trying to get rid of Tucson schools’ “Ethnic Studies” (or, “How to Become a Loser Malcontent”) programs. He’s one of the few bright spots in public education.
The authors wrote that the Supreme Court decision had a "benefit" and a "cost." The benefit, it said, was to strike down a rarely enforced law that could probably not be passed today, while the cost was to "create the possibility that the court, and not Congress or state legislatures, might decide whether same-sex marriages were legal."
Derek Araujo, the report's author, said that's a matter of opinion and that gay-rights activists, for example, see it differently. "The major problem with this is they describe the costs and benefits of the system in a very political way," he said.
So how else do you describe costs and benefits in a political system? I'm wondering what they wanted to hear.
The CEAI leader fears that the advanced students are no longer being as academically challenged as they have been in the past and are also being taught one-sided arguments.
Translation. This isn’t proper indoctrination. We need the PROPER one sided arguments presented, not conservative alternatives.
I used this book in AP US Govt in 1989. It was exceedingly fair. Gotta love the Newspeak -- Fair=Conservative, Truth=Swiftboating...ad nauseum.
Here’s one of the offending passages:
“The earth has become warmer, but is this mostly the result of natural climate changes, or is it heavily influenced by humans putting greenhouse gases into the air?”
The horror, the horror. So I guess you can’t even ask the question any more.
James QWilson has been one of America's leading scholars in the field of government and Political Science for decades. His efforts have been vetted and praised. The idea that his work can be banned from schools while Zinn is lauded is a most egregious example of the failing state of American education. I say this speaking from inside the clasroom as a 30 year History teacher.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Both my kids graduated from a public high school. One has earned a degree in Electrical Engineering from Tufts University, and the other is finishing up a degree in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Illinois. I’d give public education a “C”.
That's just the beginning of a book that is fair - i.e. true. There might also be extra-credit articles on how Teddy got away with murder, how the universities came to support censorship, and leaving the gold standard leads to bankruptcy.
Thanks for the links. So these writers dared to doubt the existence of global warming and this resulted.
Why am I not surprised?
Liberal sponsored censorship........it’s “ok” when they do it.......
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