Posted on 09/12/2008 6:25:41 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Think the history your kids are being taught in school is fair and balanced?
Think again says Larry Schweikart, University of Dayton professor and author of "48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned In School)."
Here are four examples from Schweikart's "worst offenders":
• "The American Pageant," by Bailey and David Kennedy
Schweikart's take:
"One of the most long-running and flawed, of these texts, esp. in the Reagan years. On p. 237, I actually have two charts, one from the book, and one reflecting the REAL data (i.e., "real" dollars as a share of GNP — which any responsible economist would have used. The visual difference is stunning."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
ping!
No parent should have to pay for these ‘textbooks’.
Too bad they didn't stun us by showing us the charts.
Excuse me. That should have been “stune,” not “stun.”
Sorry.
Excellent segments with the Friends this week...bravo, Larry!
Series mistake.
(Bookmarking for later.)
some public skools i’ve notices teach
“world history” as opposed to “american history”.
world history is usually taught from the 3rd world perspective, amplifying all the ideas of the left that we discuss here.
duh ... d.
ROFL!
ping
I can tell you are not a lib. They would have called it a flip-flop or better yet, a lie.
From dem rulebook: "All mistakes by conservatives are lies. All lies by liberals are mistakes."
I’ve taught at a College for over 30 years and the students that our public schools turn out are pathetic. One third are functionally illiterate and most don’t know anything about American History. Forget about math or critical thinking. Its pretty scary.
Notwithstanding the books, the teachers are often worse. My daughter just dropped her first college history course and changed to a different class.
American History form the founding to 1877
Day one-According to the instructor, The founding fathers disappeared after the revolution and did nothing because “they sucked.”
Day two, Bush paid money to keep out of Vietnam.
She dumped this guy cause she was paying hundreds of dollars in her own money to learn history, not this guys preconceived idiocy.
I explained the reality of the founding fathers being kind of busy building a country and writing the US Constitution and the truth of Bus and Vietnam and his service in probably the most dangerous branch of the National Guard.
The new guy is far better.
“One of the most long-running and flawed, of these texts, esp. in the Reagan years. On p. 237, I actually have two charts, one from the book, and one reflecting the REAL data (i.e., “real” dollars as a share of GNP — which any responsible economist would have used. The visual difference is stunning.”
It would be much, much more effective of we could make sense out of this. Where are thew charts, even at the link?
Corrupted history textbooks ping!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,421084,00.html
Video of Freeper author LS at link. Way to go Larry!
It’s not the poster’s fault. The article at Foxnews is equally incoherent.
Sorry, should have made it clear I knew it wasn’t the poster’s fault. The Fox story is so bad as to render it ineffective. It needs more detail, more examples, and more context.
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