This is important stuff. You cant build a conservative majority without a conservative electorate.

The Textbooks have a lot of influence on what is taught. I’m happy that all of the textbooks I had in HS at both Uvalde and East Central. I feel really sorry for the students now that have very biased Textbook when it comes to history. Some things like the Mexican-American war are easily debunked here in Texas. Since the dispute was always about the line was considered to be at the Nueces and not the Rio Grande(the Nueces is the western border of Uvalde county and the Rio Grande is miles away). One of favorite Texas history books is written by TR Fehrenbach and was first published in 1968. It’s time to infiltrate the classrooms with with a more conservative look. There is a reason they don’t our SBOE reworking of textbooks because, as Texas goes so does the nation.

The Socialist Education system is tantamount to child abuse.

There is an excellent review of Howard Zinn’s execrable PEOPLES HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES On NRO by Roger Kimball right now. It says everything I thought about the book when I read it much better than I could have said it. Apparently many schools are using this diatribe as a textbook. The idea of any more taxpayer money going down this socialist rat hole as BHO wants is obscene.

having. This is EQUALLY as important as politics because our children are being USED for social experimentation instead of being taught TRUE American history. Let US get the House back in November and then work OUR newly elected Conservative Republicans to make SERIOUS CHANGE at the Dept of Ed!

Great diary, Pilgrim!

We went to Christian schools and were home-schooled and our textbooks were very patriotic. We used Abeka history books and , while they aren’t perfect, they are unabashedly pro-American and very interesting. I don’t know about any public school histories, but most of the Christian curriculum history books are highly patriotic.

I’ve looked at a few public school history texts and saw nothing in them that would make me prould of the United States if that was all that I knew.

WE are here by osmosis I guess

“It Will Be as if the American Founding Never Happened
Posted February 5th, 2010 at 3:59pm in First Principles with 3 comments Print This Post

Forget George Washington, James Madison, Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln—nothing meaningful happened in America before 1877.

That’s the lesson North Carolina public high schools may start teaching. Under proposed changes in their high school history curriculum, the U.S. History course (which seniors take) will cover events from 1877 forward only.

It will be as if the American Founding never happened.”

So North Carolinians STOP THIS INSANITY! as it is public schools refuse to teach our children any PRIDE in our country but at the very least our founding SHOULD be taught!

Imagine a modern science book talking about lunar geology, or space launch technology without mentioning any manned exploration. And how long will it take – if ever – to purge the hoax religion of AGW from the text books?

My daughter teaches downstate in the public school system. As an aside in a totally unrelated conversation she referred to Lincoln as our 14th president. Obviously I was not a homeschooler.

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Activists Taking Action: Unified Patriots

Or homeschooling.

While the Federal Dept of Ed has to go, so to should state education departments.

When parents can directly and effectively control curriculum, personnel decisions and opt out (and take their money out with them) the schools will be fixed automatically.

Let freedom ring!!!

education doesn’t start or stop with a textbook.

As a future history teacher, I can say that I will teach my future students the history that the textbooks leave out. As long as I follow the Illinois Learning Standards or any other curriculum guidelines a school district has, there is no reason not to fill in those gaps found within textbooks. I did just that in the last lesson plan that I wrote regarding the US versus the American Indians 1860-1910. I used the textbook as a guide to construct my lesson plan, but I did additional research knowing that what was in the text was insufficient and used it in my lesson plan. The text wasn’t really wrong, it was just light on details to put it mildly.

Textbooks are just one of many tools teachers use in the classroom. Ultimately, the task of teaching falls on the teacher, not the textbook. A teacher is supposed to have knowledge in their content area and if they don’t recognize the need to fill in gaps, then they are at fault, no matter what the textbook does or doesn’t say.

The problem is that there are lazy teachers out there that use the teacher’s edition text only to make their lesson plans and that is it. Why should they do more? I mean, as long as they show up and their students get decent grades, they’ll get their union mandated raises. Right? I look at my son’s teachers right now and see this happening. They clock in at 8 and clock out at 3. Think back when you were in school. Did your best teachers (history or otherwise) teach using the textbook only or did they incorporate outside sources and go further into detail regarding the subject material? In the end, the text is nothing more than an aid and should never be considered the final say on the subject area.

Let’s face it. When the teacher doesn’t do their job, the textbook is the least of our worries. The problem of bad textbooks or bad teachers are easier to fix than school districts in North Carolina trying to remove history before 1877 in the classroom. Whoever came up with that idea has no business being anywhere near an educational facility, let alone students.

at least one school administrator, maybe a supervisor of the discipline under consideration, like “history” which is now, folks, SOCIAL STUDIES, and includes sociology and psychology courses, along sometimes with civics and economics, and maybe one parent.

Besides thinking of running for Rep. committee person, people on the right have to get involved with the schools and get on curriculum committees (what is taught), textbook purchasing committees (the curriculum is driven by the textbook), discipline/punishment committees (sets rules and regulations), yadda. Boards of Ed. have dozens of committees, some of which usually a token civilian.

Teacher colleges (another target) and teacher certification programs are rife with lefty nuts. After all, a great icon, Howard Zinn, just retired, and academics defended Ward Churchill for YEARS. Remember, in 1972 the pres. of the NEA said all teachers were now social engineers. Altho’ I am meeting more and more cons. teachers who have jumped the NEA ship, the unions (“associations”) and mass of “educators” are reflexively lefties and Dems.