For those who don’t know Pearson pretty much dominates the school textbook business. When I started teaching in the 60s there were several publishers to choose from when picking a text to use. When I retired, there were only a few and even if they had different publisher names at least half were actually Pearson texts.
Check out history textbooks for jr. high or high school students. Flip to WWII and take a look at what you’ll find. Surprisingly, it was blacks and women won the war. Also the Japanese internment was roughly the equivalent of the Holocaust.
RE: For those who don’t know Pearson pretty much dominates the school textbook business
Facebook dominates social media, Google dominates search and video, Twitter dominates messaging, Amazon dominates e-Commerce, and now... Pearson.
Time to go for the alternatives. These are not the only companies in their business.
Pierson is the publisher for common core. Obama initiated the “race to the top” whereby schools or school districts got lots of federal tax dollars if they went with common core. Even some Catholic schools did this. Once hooked, the school must use their books, their tests, etc. It is a global company.
All the Americab history classes in public school that I endured basically was the early Europeans arriving and a rehashing some bits of the revolutionary war.
One exception was 8th grade US where the civil war was touched on.