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