Posted on 09/12/2008 6:25:41 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
Think the history your kids are being taught in school is fair and balanced?
Think again says Larry Schweikart, University of Dayton professor and author of "48 Liberal Lies About American History (That You Probably Learned In School)."
Here are four examples from Schweikart's "worst offenders":
• "The American Pageant," by Bailey and David Kennedy
Schweikart's take:
"One of the most long-running and flawed, of these texts, esp. in the Reagan years. On p. 237, I actually have two charts, one from the book, and one reflecting the REAL data (i.e., "real" dollars as a share of GNP — which any responsible economist would have used. The visual difference is stunning."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
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No parent should have to pay for these ‘textbooks’.
Too bad they didn't stun us by showing us the charts.
Excuse me. That should have been “stune,” not “stun.”
Sorry.
Excellent segments with the Friends this week...bravo, Larry!
Series mistake.
(Bookmarking for later.)
some public skools i’ve notices teach
“world history” as opposed to “american history”.
world history is usually taught from the 3rd world perspective, amplifying all the ideas of the left that we discuss here.
duh ... d.
ROFL!
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I can tell you are not a lib. They would have called it a flip-flop or better yet, a lie.
From dem rulebook: "All mistakes by conservatives are lies. All lies by liberals are mistakes."
I’ve taught at a College for over 30 years and the students that our public schools turn out are pathetic. One third are functionally illiterate and most don’t know anything about American History. Forget about math or critical thinking. Its pretty scary.
Notwithstanding the books, the teachers are often worse. My daughter just dropped her first college history course and changed to a different class.
American History form the founding to 1877
Day one-According to the instructor, The founding fathers disappeared after the revolution and did nothing because “they sucked.”
Day two, Bush paid money to keep out of Vietnam.
She dumped this guy cause she was paying hundreds of dollars in her own money to learn history, not this guys preconceived idiocy.
I explained the reality of the founding fathers being kind of busy building a country and writing the US Constitution and the truth of Bus and Vietnam and his service in probably the most dangerous branch of the National Guard.
The new guy is far better.
“One of the most long-running and flawed, of these texts, esp. in the Reagan years. On p. 237, I actually have two charts, one from the book, and one reflecting the REAL data (i.e., “real” dollars as a share of GNP — which any responsible economist would have used. The visual difference is stunning.”
It would be much, much more effective of we could make sense out of this. Where are thew charts, even at the link?
Corrupted history textbooks ping!
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,421084,00.html
Video of Freeper author LS at link. Way to go Larry!
It’s not the poster’s fault. The article at Foxnews is equally incoherent.
Sorry, should have made it clear I knew it wasn’t the poster’s fault. The Fox story is so bad as to render it ineffective. It needs more detail, more examples, and more context.
i recently finished a degree and had all i could do to get through the general education credits. on top of having to read and supposedly learn from these liberal texts, this was a black college and i was subjected to this constant barrage of what the “evil whites” did to the minorities.
what amazed me is in one 20 page chapter on the civil war....only one sentence mentioned Lincoln. the rest were about the atrocities whites committed.
i dropped a world history class because the text treated christianity and judaism (and jews and christians) appallingly and cast doubt on any claims or beliefs of either.
That’s what I thought. I guess we’re gust gonna have to trust them.
Was reading this book yesterday...a must read for those like history and not PC history
Probably the one thing I learned from this book, that I had not heard before...was some of the things related to the Star Wars SDI program....that the Soviets were already planning high-tech missle defense (and why they failed)
LS,
Thought you might like to read yetidog’s comment. I too wondered about A People’s History of the United States.
Lies or nothing. My grandson took American history last year the ONLY time in his elementary school it will be taught and the teacher never mentioned Patrick Henry and briefly touched on Ben Franklin and Paul Revere. I can only assume the teacher are afraid to to teach about Patriots.
Former social studies editor here (K-12). Yep, our books were very biased, very PC. Although there were one or two conservatives in the SS department, the overall philosophy is very left-wing. Still, what you see in the books is the edited version - you should see some of the diatribes we received from our authors - liberals all, and influential in the educational community. But the real problem lies in the state adoption committees who create the guidelines for the books. If a book doesn’t comply, it can’t be sold in that particular adoption state. It’s entrenched and would require a large and massive effort to reform.
The books are free. The 'government' pays for them. /s
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Thanks for the ping!
Are you familiar with “A Patriot’s History of the United States”, written by Larry Schweikart and Michael Allen? Schwerkart is Freeper LS.
I've bought and given away so many copies of that book, I think I have sent his kids through college.
LOL! It’s one of my favorite gifts to give also.
And I've met few instructors who like to "teach against the book." It's hard enough to teach WITH a book, using it for reinforcement. The classes that do use Zinn tend to also use our book, "A Patriot's History of the United States," which doesn't have the touchy-feely visuals and CD-roms that NofN has, but which is far superior in every other way.
However, I do have them in my book :)
Thanks. Apparently it’s working: the publisher just notified me that they’ve gone into a second printing to meet demand, and it got up into the 60s on Amazon today.
LOL. Even I haven’t come across instructors that bad!
I encouraged them to show the charts WHICH I HAVE IN MY BOOK and they didn’t. The producer who put this together said the bigwigs got on her for the visuals, namely not having them.
Yep. If you can give me the name of that, I’d like it for my records. I thought I’d seen the worst.
Yeah, you know where I learned that? Back in 1984, a poly sci prof and I wrote a history of the Trident Sub program, and in the course of that research we found all this stuff about Soviet laser/particle beam weapons tests . . . in the 1970s!!! They just didn’t have the money or the skill to make it a reality.
hehe. Well, this teacher spent the better part of yesterday’s lecture JUST on Revere, Henry, Otis, Adams, and the 56 signers.
It began to shift before that. They hated Reagan. Don’t know what year Bailey died, but I think he was still around when those Reagan sections were drafted.
LOL. My son goes to my college free because I’m a prof. But I do appreciate the new car. Thanks.
Thanks to both of you. This one is really coming out of the gate fast. It was up to #65 today on Amazon-—and the real publicity hasn’t started-—and the publisher ordered a 2nd printing.
Nooooo. Liberals can’t be biased. If they lie, it was a “simple mistake” (repeated in 20 other textbooks, AFTER “fact checking”). Only conservatives can be biased.
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