Sometimes, where they are based also has an impact. PH is British-based. Holt is in Austin, TX. Glencoe is in Ohio. I think another is in Boston.
Holy Carp!!!
Again I make the promise to myself- I promise to keep my 6 year old boy in a Christian private school even though I have trouble affording it. I make this promise everytime I hear one of these idiotic stories about public schools.
Like I posted yesterday: The one thing I can say about the muslims is that they are strategically very smart. They recognize the importance of education. By infiltrating schools, universities and colleges with their death cult philosophy, and by synergizing the left's moonbat anger, which parallels their own, they are creating a learning environment receptive to their trash, where their propaganda will fill the minds of the future leaders in this country. The muslims are trying to gain an intellectual foothold and desire to create a generation of pro-muslim useful idiots.
Mr. Unruh needs spell check.
It's "propaganda".
"Houghton Mifflin's chief publicist, Collin Earnst, also criticized the report, suggesting that such "bias has misled the public into believing that Islam is a barbaric and murderous religion."
Umm, no. Bias in books or groups wasn't what convinced me that Islam is a barbaric and murderous religion. I believe 9-11 did that quite well by itself.
Seriously, the textbook-education school complex is a threat not only to religious tolerance and understanding but also to our children's historical perspectives. Companies and textbook editors do everything they can to increase sales, which means convincing school book buyers that books must be constantly updated, pushing the books in the education classes the writers and editors teach, adding bells and whistles to jazz the books up.
The result is school districts feel pressure to buy the latest (unvetted) very expensive books but can't afford enough to let the kids take the books home so only classroom copies are available. In those instances where kids can take books home, they are required on day one to make covers so they won't mar the multi-colored, expensive book bindings.
It is a system that makes the old military-industrial complex look sickly by comparison. Any parent should carefully vet, if possible, not only the history texts but any textbook. Propaganda hides everywhere in math books, English books, science books, in the choice of reading assignments, in the films watched. Education used to be a partner with parents in protecting our children. No longer. It's an adversarial relationship now.
The more the left successfully removes Christianity and Judaism from American life, the more the head-choppers move in.
Should we surrender now? We've got an educational establishment that stands for nothing.