Widely used public school textbook criticized for being too conservative

One News Now ^ | 4/18/2008 12:00:00 PM | Pete Chagnon

[EEDUDE]

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.

[FlyVet]

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.

[Disambiguator]

I love this passage from one of your links:

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.

[saganite]

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.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Ya, I just read that one.

Student Sees Problems With H.S. Text

[10Ring]

Are they talking about separating the Church of Global Warming from the State? I think he just had his milk money stolen too many times.

I used this book in AP US Govt in 1989. It was exceedingly fair. Gotta love the Newspeak -- Fair=Conservative, Truth=Swiftboating...ad nauseum.

[Our man in washington]

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.

[steelyourfaith]

"Under criticism are statements that cause students to question whether the debate over "global warming" is really over ..."

[xkaydet65]

75% of American High Schools use Howard Zinn'sPeople's History. A tract so far to the Left that it includes one page of the U.S. role in WWII. Also it contains not a single citation for any of Zinn's allegations. Yet this book is not only acceptable, it is praised.

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.

[goldstategop]

No textbook has ever been widely criticized as being "too liberal."

"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

[RonF]

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”.

[DaveyB]

To be fair minded would be to state explicitly that:

1. The ACLU is an enemy of America
2. The NEA is the enemy of children
3. The SCOTUS is in opposition to the constitution
4. The interstate commerce clause was a federalist ruse to obtain power from the states
5. Progressive income taxes are incentives to achieve less
6. Where there is a high concentration of democrats taxes, the cost of living, STD's and crime are higher
7. The US is a representative republic NOT a democracy
8. Welfare, food stamps, medicare/mediciad, Social security are all wealth transfer schemes to buy votes
9. Property taxes makes every person a renter to the state
10. Rights are for citizens not intruders
11. Government schools are the worst value in education, but necessary to teach future adults they have no liberty
12. Joseph McCarthy was right
13. The vast majority of founding fathers were pious Christians who believed in obeying God's law
14. Bureaucracies do not solve problems the perpetuate them
15. Children do not belong to the state
16. The Bill of Rights purpose is to limit government not empower it
17. Taxation over 10% is tyranny (worse than imposed by the Roman Empire)
18. Humans are more important than kangaroo mice
19. The second amendment is your gun permit
20. The Church has higher authority than the state although a different jurisdiction
21. A teaching degree has no effect on the accomplishment of students and is just another device to control the masses
22. Liberty is more precious than government security

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.

[day10]

Thanks for the links. So these writers dared to doubt the existence of global warming and this resulted.

Why am I not surprised?

[Bubba_Leroy]

War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

[AwesomePossum]

Liberal sponsored censorship........it’s “ok” when they do it.......