Posted on 01/16/2016 5:52:44 AM PST by jp3
Hello all, I am a junior high SS/Religion teacher in one of the Cincinnati Catholic Schools. We are using an updated textbook from Prentice Hall (Pearson). To be blunt, I hate this textbook! It's all over the place on our American historical roots as well as very biased against American ingenuity and foresight. My principal and parish priest are very open to using resources that have not 'revised' the world's history. Can anyone suggest a textbook company that is not revising history? The textbook we use now is called "America, History of our Nation."
You could “supplement” the current textbook (use it as little as possible) with information from A Patriot’s History of the United States, The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History, Dinesh D’Souza’s books, etc. I use these in a class I am teaching at a co-op for homeschoolers. Also, Bob Jones Press has some good history material written from a conservative POV.
He wrote history books, but they're not "textbooks."
If Rush started a publishing business just producing school text books that are superior in every way to the Leftist publishing houses, Rush would make money hand over fist.
His books are already being used by some teachers. They call in to his show all the time!
Contact the Mises Institute. They are very prompt with specific resource listings, or people to contact that will help you achieve your educational goals:
Mises Institue
518 West Magnolia Avenue
Auburn, Alabama 36832-4501
Web site: https://www.mises.org/
PHONE 334.321.2100 | FAX 334.321.2119
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If you can, avoid textbooks. Get bios, historical fictions, atlases, first-hand accounts. We homeschooled K-10 (then college) and never wasted our money on textbooks. There are wonderful paperbacks on any number of things. Textbooks take a great deal of stuff, pablum it down into mini-packages, and paste it together. imho
Yes, Paul Johnson is terrific.
We didn’t use many textbooks. Most of them are painfully dry and boring. Our kids read various books on history or whatever subject interested them, but then our “program” was not exactly what one would call structured.
I’m a big believer in letting kids follow their interests. Our sons learned an amazing amount of geography, among other things, by playing the game Uncharted Waters where they were the captains of trading ships sailing all over the world.
John Holt was a hippie, but he had some good insights as to how people learn. Schools start with the general subject and then move on to the various parts of that subject later. Think European history, then the various countries. How people really learn though is from having an interest in one particular subject and then branching out from that to the areas that connect with that subject. Think little girls interested in horses and then going on to read more about other subjects that concern horses such as how they were used throughout history or their anatomy or the different breeds and their origins. Anyway, that’s my 2-cents on the subject.
Guess I’m not much help on textbooks, eh? :-)
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