[TaxRelief]

They promise to correct their mistakes; They refuse to believe they are undermining the education of America's kids; They've repeatedly placated the press with their virtually useless "open-book initiative"; Too many undereducated teachers rely on textbooks that misinform and deconstruct.

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This passage from Glencoe's "Global Insights" actually celebrates communism in China and it's contribution to equal rights for women:

Under China’s 1950 constitution, the Communists introduced major changes for women. The constitution declared, "Women enjoy equal rights with men in all spheres of political, economic, cultural, social, and family life. Men and women enjoy equal pay for equal work."
br> China’s marriage law also gave women the right to own property and to keep their family name. Today, Chinese women have become more independent. Almost all women work outside the home, and many hold high-level jobs in the Communist party or as factory managers. The government has set up day-care centers and nurseries so that young mothers can be free to work outside the home. (While their children are brainwashed in a government institution.)

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Does anyone really wonder why the intellectualism (not intelligence) of some of America's young adults is at an all time low? Does anyone really wonder why a portion of the next generation has lost all fear of totalitarianism, socialism, fascism and communism?

Wisconsin Schools Review (Warning pdf file, worth downloading!)
Texas Public Policy Foundation Social Studies Textbook errors list Parent resource (excellent) pdf

[farmer18th]

HOMESCHOOL

[LS]

SHAMELESS PLUG ALERT! "A PATRIOT'S HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES" will be coming out in NOVEMBER from Penquin from yours truly and Michael Allen.

This is a one-volume, CONSERVATIVE (I'd say, "honest") U.S. history trade book that will double as a text (we wanted to avoid a "text" label for sales reasons).

Penquin is really going to market this. I'm serious---they are going to give it both barrels. All Freepers, stop complaining about "no history books on the right" and support our book (and make us rich!)

[Bahbah]

"They refuse to believe they are undermining the education of America's kids."

I disagree. I think they know exactly what they are doing.

[longtermmemmory]

Where are the competing books? It is pointless to condem these texts without a competing text book.

Remember the name of most social studies teachers is "Coach".

Teachers don't think, they follow these books. Parents need to know these books are crippling their child's future. Perhaps the same parents who want vouchers can support accuracy in texts. Does the SAT even consider history of the USA. Perhaps it should.

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

[Libertina]

No mention that socialism is based on a belief that man must be forced by government to support others, said San Antonio history teacher Scott K. Harris

The text devotes 47 pages to communism , 18 pages to socialism, but just four pages to capitalism

That pretty well sums it up...

[TheDon]

Separation of school and state bump!

[gcruse]

I took World History as a high school elective in 1958.

When we got to the communism part, I remember commenting to the teacher that, it seemed to me, once you got everyone's standard of living up, communism wouldn't be a bad way to live. She exploded. Nowadays, I'd probably have gotten an A for the year.

Born too soon.

[sdk7x7]

I'm a senior at New Rochelle High School in NY. I can tell you that last year, our American history textbook was one of the most biased (left-wing) things I have ever read. It slammed Republicans for just about everything and had about 3 times as many pages on Clinton as it did on Reagan. I know that this year's American history students were required to buy a supplemental textbook by Howard Zinn. If you're not familiar with this radical, some of the following links may be enlightening, to say the least:
http://www.zmag.org/bios/homepage.cfm?authorID=97

Book excerpt: http://www.english.upenn.edu/~afilreis/50s/zinn-chap16.html

Biography:
http://www.brainyencyclopedia.com/encyclopedia/h/ho/howard_zinn.html

I will say, however, that the textbook that we're using in AP U.S. Government & Politics this year was written by two conservative Republicans, one of whom is a prof at UPenn (where I'll be going next year) and one of whom writes frequently in the Wall Street Journal.

-sdk
PS: You can only imagine how objective our teacher is.