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Article: The earth is flat: my textbook says so.(incorrect information in textbooks)
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- Commonweal
- Article date:
- December 15, 1995
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Education is a battleground these days. Public schools are widely and for the most part rightly seen, at least in some large urban areas, as disasters. The blame falls on the wider culture, the teachers' unions, the demands placed on public schools as the courts of last resort when all other social institutions have collapsed, and all of this complaining has some basis in fact.
Today's lesson has to do with the texts. Teachers work with what they are given, and often have little choice about the texts they must use to teach children about everything ranging from the American civil rights movement to world history. It is one thing to have to deal with the culture of ...