History- Taught with errors and rewritten for today's political views.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://articles.dailypress.com/2011-...review-process

State historians find more errors in textbooks


January 06, 2011|By Tyra M. Vaughn, tvaughn@dailypress.com
A team of historians have racked up a long list of big errors in two social studies textbooks custom-written for Virginia schools.

In the books published by Five Ponds Press, students will find that 12 states joined the Confederacy instead of 11, Thomas Jefferson began his presidency in 1800 instead of 1801 and the United States entered World War I in 1916 instead of 1917.

http://www.textbookreviews.org/index.html?content=nl_11_02.htm

Almost certainly the respective 8th Grade com*pan*ion volumes of these four high school U.S. History books contain a like number of undiscov*ered factual errors. In the 100+ total texts in this K-12 Social Studies submis*sion, the factual errors yet outstanding must run into the thou*sands. What if this industry flew our airplanes or made our prescription drugs? Hopefully this is the only time Texas ever adopts textbooks for all Social Studies courses in the same year. Competent review of one upper-level textbook takes 6-8 weeks of quality time. Better to do a little well, than a lot poorly. We should return to staggered adoption of different grade levels of Social Studies books in different years.

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/pub/texts.html

Rewriting History in Textbooks By Mitchell Bard

he political correctness debate has led to increased scrutiny of how textbooks present the history of different peoples. While many minorities have actively campaigned to have their histories more accurately depicted, Jews have stayed on the sidelines. The following examination of 18 of the most widely used world and American history texts indicates this silence has allowed publishers to distribute books that are filled with egregious factual errors and specious analyses. The mistakes invariably are to the detriment of the Jews or Israel, raising questions about the predisposition of authors and publishers.
The anti-Israel bias is usually a result of factual inaccuracy, oversimplification, omission and distortion. Common errors include getting dates of events wrong, blaming Israel for wars that were a result of Arab provocation, perpetuating the myth of Islamic tolerance of Jews, minimizing the Jewish aspect of the Holocaust, apologizing for Arab autocrats, refusing to label violence against civilians as terrorism and suggesting that Israel is the obstacle to peace. Some of the most flagrant examples that occur in more than one book are the failure to mention that Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack in 1973 on Israel's holiest day, Yom Kippur, and that Iraq fired SCUD missiles at Israel during the 1991 Gulf War. The books in this study were so poorly written that all but one require major revisions.
The best way to correct the bias in textbooks is for parents to take an active role by examining the books their children are being assigned. If they know or suspect that Jewish history is being distorted, they should protest to the school, school board and publisher.

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^^^^^ Just the tip of the iceberg folks.. Much of it is not just mistakes but is deliberate rewriting of history or should I say distorting of the truth to fit a political agenda.
We fail to teach history or greatly distort it our nation will quickly see the results in the disasterous results brought about from failing to heed the lessons history teaches .
This is by design and our education system is responsible for that agenda.. Our kids are being programmed to abandon the very foundations of our nation, our culture and our values! Remember my many talks about my having had to reteach my daughter all through her grades until her graduation?
Well, the small sample above shows just a small example of why. I was taught over 40 years ago and know true history not this lying leftist socialist shat they teach now! Now I must go about reteaching my 6 year old son for the next 12 years. Lucky for me that I have a huge library to make the job easier!!
This makes the gun debate crap look like small potatoes if you ask me. It is whole sale brainwashing of our kids and most parents haven't a damn clue that it's even being carried out!!-Tyr

[logroller]

Textbooks are wrong all the time. Even in math texts, and there's not much wiggle room on math. Errors, omissions, mistakes and, yes, even the rewriting of history...which has occurred since recorded history of time began. I'm reminded of Churchill's famous quip when asked if history would remember him well, "history will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

[Kathianne]

The above is why I asked those posting about their kids getting the wrong information from teachers, how old were the teachers? Were they actually history majors or just passing on the wrong things they were taught themselves?

I can't say that I had any history professors give me 'incorrect information' in the 90's, however most had a bias of one sort or another. It is different though what educations teachers pass off as 'history' regarding education as a discipline. English profs are notorious for misrepresenting historical events and the causes of them.

For years I've been writing about the texts being used, near impossible , make that impossible to find a social studies text that isn't really about the wrongs done to minorities and in one case, 1/2 the population of every hue.

Now I'm not defending past wrongs, plenty were made by those in power at the time. The thing is, what is failed to be mentioned are the accomplishments that not only were made at the time, but the historical and sociological and political paradigms that changed due to many of those accomplishments. For instance, the Civil War, Women's Suffrage, Civil Rights Movement, etc.

Critical thinking is absent from the texts, thus left undeveloped in the students.

[logroller]

The above is why I asked those posting about their kids getting the wrong information from teachers, how old were the teachers? Were they actually history majors or just passing on the wrong things they were taught themselves?

I can't say that I had any history professors give me 'incorrect information' in the 90's, however most had a bias of one sort or another. It is different though what educations teachers pass off as 'history' regarding education as a discipline. English profs are notorious for misrepresenting historical events and the causes of them.

For years I've been writing about the texts being used, near impossible , make that impossible to find a social studies text that isn't really about the wrongs done to minorities and in one case, 1/2 the population of every hue.

Now I'm not defending past wrongs, plenty were made by those in power at the time. The thing is, what is failed to be mentioned are the accomplishments that not only were made at the time, but the historical and sociological and political paradigms that changed due to many of those accomplishments. For instance, the Civil War, Women's Suffrage, Civil Rights Movement, etc.

Critical thinking is absent from the texts, thus left undeveloped in the students.

ive read my kids texts, and they have the critical questions in there at chapter's end, but when teaching to the median, I just don't think it always gets presented. Bu along those lines, (from the OP source)

District Instructional Supervisor of Elementary Education Windy Nichols said the division is telling teachers to talk with students about how to use more than one resource to verify information, which is an information technology SOL.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Textbooks are wrong all the time. Even in math texts, and there's not much wiggle room on math. Errors, omissions, mistakes and, yes, even the rewriting of history...which has occurred since recorded history of time began. I'm reminded of Churchill's famous quip when asked if history would remember him well, "history will be kind to me for I intend to write it."

What you are missing is it is not a simple case of mistakes being made. Mush of the misinformation is intentional. For it helps back up a political view that desires to force change.
I've had some serious exchanges over the years with my daughter's teachers when they mixed mistaken information with their own bias to tell me daughter propagandized conclusions. The Public Education System is teaching socialism but doing so in a restrained long term way. It is that way by design to avoid the massive critical backlash it would have gotten had it came on full bore decades back. -Tyr

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

http://www.christianvssecular.com/te...ory_errors.php

D-Day for History Texts

In a 2005 evaluation of two 8th grade U.S. History books used in Texas schools, Educational Research Analysts (a conservative Christian organization that reviews public school textbooks) found 103 factual errors. In their 2006 evaluation of five 8th grade U.S. History books approved for California middle schools, they found 427 factual errors.¹
Possibly even more troubling than the persistent errors is the value of the books’ content and presentation. In 2003, the Thomas B. Fordham Institute examined six widely used high school U.S. history texts and six world history texts. They concluded that “the books reviewed in this report range from serviceable to abysmal. None is distinguished or even very good…. No textbook scored better than 78 percent overall…. Five of the twelve earned failing marks.”²
And, apparently, there’s been little improvement in succeeding years. According to Gilbert Sewall, president of the American Textbook Council, “although publishers have developed new world and U.S. history textbooks at three different grade levels since 2003, they did not use the intervening five years to correct factual information or right the imbalances. They have allowed the errors to remain.”<sup>3

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This misinformation problem has been going on for decades now. And only getting worse.
Sure some are just true mistakes made but obviously many are intended and done to further a political agenda. Public education is controlled by the Federal government so this agenda being carried out is propaganda used against we the citizens and our children/grandchildren. That is actually treasonous acts engaged in by the central government to further its agenda to eventually gain dictatorial total control ! -Tyr</sup>

[logroller]

What you are missing is it is not a simple case of mistakes being made. Mush of the misinformation is intentional. For it helps back up a political view that desires to force change.
I've had some serious exchanges over the years with my daughter's teachers when they mixed mistaken information with their own bias to tell me daughter propagandized conclusions. The Public Education System is teaching socialism but doing so in a restrained long term way. It is that way by design to avoid the massive critical backlash it would have gotten had it came on full bore decades back. -Tyr

Perhaps I'm missing it. Or perhaps you don't challenge your own biases enough. That when something like the EPA makes rules on air quality, that has a profound effect on public health, you see that as economic socialism when it may be a pursuit of justice and freedom from harm. Or that when something is popular and garners social support, you say its unprincipled. You can play fast with words like socialism, principles, freedom and the like, but words mean stuff and there is not one universal political truth-- even with history.

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

Perhaps I'm missing it. Or perhaps you don't challenge your own biases enough. That when something like the EPA makes rules on air quality, that has a profound effect on public health, you see that as economic socialism when it may be a pursuit of justice and freedom from harm. Or that when something is popular and garners social support, you say its unprincipled. You can play fast with words like socialism, principles, freedom and the like, but words mean stuff and there is not one universal political truth-- even with history.

Truth is universal but political truth is an elusive animal rarely ever seen and almost never captured. I am not guilty of playing fast and loose with words in fact that is exactly what government does with it's propaganda campaign that you seem to think is my imagination.

The negatives of socialism are a known truth so I am not imagining or inventing anything in that regards. My principles are intact and I do not bend or break them Hoss. My actual spirited defense of freedom has not, is not and never will be righteously questioned by you or anybody else.

Your attempt to turn this into a question of my character and personal principles is duly noted and rightly denied. How about you address the issue of the multitude of errors and give your evidence of why they are not made as products of a deliberate agenda by our government instead of trying to make this about the OP?? -Tyr

[Drummond]

Truth is universal but political truth is an elusive animal rarely ever seen and almost never captured. I am not guilty of playing fast and loose with words in fact that is exactly what government does with it's propaganda campaign that you seem to think is my imagination.

The negatives of socialism are a known truth so I am not imagining or inventing anything in that regards. My principles are intact and I do not bend or break them Hoss. My actual spirited defense of freedom has not, is not and never will be righteously questioned by you or anybody else.

Your attempt to turn this into a question of my character and personal principles is duly noted and rightly denied. How about you address the issue of the multitude of errors and give your evidence of why they are not made as products of a deliberate agenda by our government instead of trying to make this about the OP?? -Tyr

Couldn't agree more, Tyr. You made no attempt at all to attack Logroller, but you've nonetheless tried, Logroller, to subvert the argument into one where Tyr gets drawn into a defence of himself.

Logroller, if you really must persist with these tactics, why not just work off your issues in a Cage thread, and be done with it.

[aboutime]

Perhaps I'm missing it. Or perhaps you don't challenge your own biases enough. That when something like the EPA makes rules on air quality, that has a profound effect on public health, you see that as economic socialism when it may be a pursuit of justice and freedom from harm. Or that when something is popular and garners social support, you say its unprincipled. You can play fast with words like socialism, principles, freedom and the like, but words mean stuff and there is not one universal political truth-- even with history.

logroller. What you call playing fast with the words you used above seems to bother those like you who MUST deny them in order to protect the desired outcome that benefits you, while destroying freedoms, rights, and liberty you are willing to give up...to appease your lack of knowledge, training, and feelings of being a perpetual follower.

[revelarts]

Perhaps I'm missing it. Or perhaps you don't challenge your own biases enough. That when something like the EPA makes rules on air quality, that has a profound effect on public health, you see that as economic socialism when it may be a pursuit of justice and freedom from harm. Or that when something is popular and garners social support, you say its unprincipled. You can play fast with words like socialism, principles, freedom and the like, but words mean stuff and there is not one universal political truth-- even with history.

Log, Tyr is right here.
and it's not just a left right issue. it's a power issue.

the rabbit hole is deep on the education front but it's not hard to get the picture.

the corporate foundations the NEA and the Feds have had and agenda to make people good worker bees on the corporate/gov't plantation.
that's a stark way to put it but seriously,
is the purpose of public school to create entrepreneurs, or self sufficient families, or involved citizens, people with good Christian morals?


In another tread i quoted a few heads of the NEA and education experts who have made it known publicaly that they want public schools to be place where Children are detached from the vaules of Family religion and country. And adhere to a cooperative world village, where there are in lock step with the judgements of the wise benevolent atheistic elites.

they are not shy.
and the text books and curriculum point every child in that direction.
Seriously, if children had NOTHING but a public school education they all would be faith scoffing atheist democrats who begged for one world gov't., green everything, expect the gov't to take care of them, and hate capitalism and wonder how anyone could conceive of anything different.

20 years ago i wrote letters to editor on this topic when i thought it was only an anti christian thing.
Where NONE of the christian heritage of... of.. anyone was ever ever mentioned to influence anything.

even when i wnet to school the only religious aspect of American history i got was the pilgrims fled religious persecution had thanks giving but then the bad old Christians had a Salem Witch trials. That's its.

Anywho tyr is right, there's a clear history to this that goes way back and the agenda is anti-christian, anti family, anti-nationalist and anti-capitalist/private ownership.

doesn't mean it's in the math class or shop,
but it IS in History, in English via lit choices, in Science via evolution and green agenda, in Social studies all shot through and in Health via sex ed..
In subtle and dramatic ways done by what's put there and by whats NOT put there.

[Kathianne]

It actually pains me to thank Rev's post, but he is correct. If teachers only taught to the text, the students would be totally devoid of actual historical lessons.

Thankfully, most teachers in the districts I teach in basically abandon texts today and go with articles from universities or older text excerpts. It's difficult and time consuming, but there really are no alternatives.

The tens or hundreds of thousands in texts are a waste.

[Robert A Whit]

"… Nixon … became the first American president ever to visit the Soviet Union."
— The American Republic Since 1877 (Glencoe, 2003), p. 837, col. 1, par. 1, lines 6-8
wrong president

Nixon was not the first Amer*ican president to visit the USSR. FDR went to Yalta in 1945. The text itself admits this on p. 655, col. 2, par. 1, lines 1-3.


I got this (above) from a TX review.

First the books that speak of the civil war, five ponds publishing I believe, are produced by a Florida company. And they do have a web site and they do post errors found.

When the shuttles have errors and crash, how can we expect books to not have errors?

As to the mistakes above, first shown, while he was not then president, I believe per the book by Amity Shlaes that Herbert Hoover visited the USSR prior to him being president. Funny how it is made a big deal that FDR was at Yalta during WWII but they ignored what Hoover did in the USSR.

(Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes.)

[Tyr-Ziu Saxnot]

"… Nixon … became the first American president ever to visit the Soviet Union."
— The American Republic Since 1877 (Glencoe, 2003), p. 837, col. 1, par. 1, lines 6-8
wrong president

Nixon was not the first Amer*ican president to visit the USSR. FDR went to Yalta in 1945. The text itself admits this on p. 655, col. 2, par. 1, lines 1-3.


I got this (above) from a TX review.

First the books that speak of the civil war, five ponds publishing I believe, are produced by a Florida company. And they do have a web site and they do post errors found.

When the shuttles have errors and crash, how can we expect books to not have errors?

As to the mistakes above, first shown, while he was not then president, I believe per the book by Amity Shlaes that Herbert Hoover visited the USSR prior to him being president. Funny how it is made a big deal that FDR was at Yalta during WWII but they ignored what Hoover did in the USSR.

(Forgotten Man by Amity Shlaes.)

Look there are good teachers, I mean very , very good teachers! It is a solid gold blessing when a child gets one or two but many are pure liberal propagandists and many are pure ignorant and lazy trash. My daughter had too many of the bad ones. I loving my child more than myself set about reteaching her and did a damn fine job of it. Now she is an intelligent healthy adult with a fine career and fine life.I am extremely proud of her and she is of me. For she often tells me she knows how I sacrificed my spare time for her and NEVER EVER failed her. Its so nice to be told and sent letters/cards stating such. Now I must live long enough to do the same for my son. I'm working quite hard on accomplishing that goal. After that , I will not be eager to go but will be secure in the fact that he is an honorable intelligent man fully able to take care of himself.-Tyr

[Drummond]

Log, Tyr is right here.
and it's not just a left right issue. it's a power issue.

the rabbit hole is deep on the education front but it's not hard to get the picture.

the corporate foundations the NEA and the Feds have had and agenda to make people good worker bees on the corporate/gov't plantation.
that's a stark way to put it but seriously,
is the purpose of public school to create entrepreneurs, or self sufficient families, or involved citizens, people with good Christian morals?


In another tread i quoted a few heads of the NEA and education experts who have made it known publicaly that they want public schools to be place where Children are detached from the vaules of Family religion and country. And adhere to a cooperative world village, where there are in lock step with the judgements of the wise benevolent atheistic elites.

they are not shy.
and the text books and curriculum point every child in that direction.
Seriously, if children had NOTHING but a public school education they all would be faith scoffing atheist democrats who begged for one world gov't., green everything, expect the gov't to take care of them, and hate capitalism and wonder how anyone could conceive of anything different.

20 years ago i wrote letters to editor on this topic when i thought it was only an anti christian thing.
Where NONE of the christian heritage of... of.. anyone was ever ever mentioned to influence anything.

even when i wnet to school the only religious aspect of American history i got was the pilgrims fled religious persecution had thanks giving but then the bad old Christians had a Salem Witch trials. That's its.

Anywho tyr is right, there's a clear history to this that goes way back and the agenda is anti-christian, anti family, anti-nationalist and anti-capitalist/private ownership.

doesn't mean it's in the math class or shop,
but it IS in History, in English via lit choices, in Science via evolution and green agenda, in Social studies all shot through and in Health via sex ed..
In subtle and dramatic ways done by what's put there and by whats NOT put there.

... Stone me ! We have room for some agreement, Revelarts. Way to go, my son ...