Posted on 09/06/2009 6:23:17 AM PDT by Freedom Dignity n Honor
Host Tucker Carlson, asked experts, teachers, publishers and parents the same question: "Do you know what is inside your children's textbooks?" From kindergarten through college, we found staggering errors and omissions which may be pushing agendas, hidden and otherwise.
We spoke to the author of "The Language Police," education historian Diane Ravitch, who said textbook publishers censor images or words they deem to be controversial in children’s textbooks. She told us that publishers pander to special interest groups, and assemble bias and sensitivity review committees. These committees decide what words to ban or redefine, and even what images are deemed offensive.
And we examined some college textbooks both in print and in digital forms. We found a glaring mistake in an expensive history book written by Alan Brinkley, Provost at New York’s Columbia University.
And in Fairfax County Virginia, questions remain about what textbooks are used in the private Islamic Saudi Academy. The ISA teaches about 1000 students each year pre-K — 12. Questions have been raised about its textbooks at least since 2006.
This summer, Ahmed Omar Abu Ali, ISA’s 1999 valedictorian, was sentenced to life in prison for his role in a 2002 Al Qaeda plot to assassinate President George W. Bush.
The ISA is wholly owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and teaches students from textbooks, which according to a report by a Saudi scholar interviewed by FOX News, continues to “propagate an ideology of hate to the unbeliever...
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We tracked down two American college professors who were paid by the ISA to review these textbooks. They signed a letter obtained by FOX News that the ISA's 2008-2009 textbooks' do not contain inflammatory material…” One of them sat down for an interview; the other refused.
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I will try to do that.
I doubt very many parents read the textbooks, at all.
Yes, Fox seems to be mopping the floor with the SRM.
Nice...I could get behind something like that. My younger daughters are nearly done with high school, and had I known when they all started what I know now, I would have wanted something like you propose as an option.
If you really care about your kids education you will make the sacrifices necessary to put them in Catholic school.
The curriculum, technology, and companies exist to do this. The problems is churches and parents - both of which are addicted to that form of aid-to-dependent-parents known absurdly as “free public schools”.
We love our middle-class welfare entitlements...
How many parents read the textbooks? Virtually none, of course. In any event, most of the parents wouldn’t recognize the rubbish if they did read them because they were taught versions of the same thing, or they wouldn’t care.
“Most state education boards choose textbooks for their state instead of letting local or regional school boards do the choosing. Perhaps, that needs to change.”
And in what parallel universe will this happen? Moreover, the same types of books would generally be chosen at ANY LEVEL by our highly trained education professionals because they are throughly indoctrinated to believe the very things that are in the books.
What did he say?
Think of how much better it would have been with me in it :)
What about Marxist and communist influences in the textbooks?
Marxism is our nation's **most** urgent and serious threat. Schools are the Marxists’ most powerful and important weapon.
This was news 30 years ago when Turner started buying up our kids textbook publishers....pretty much creeping commie filth ever since. Good to see it introduced to this generation tho’ (at least for the few in this generation that watches Fox news). Also good to see liberal heads explode anytime!
I saw many of those segments. And yes, puzzled as to why they funnelled this off to Carlson.
Your book and appearances really shed light on the extent of how these textbooks are so biased.
The good thing about “Obama Day” in the schools Tuesday, is that it has focused renewed attention on Obama’s close fellowship with extremely radical “educators.”
The American people are slow to wake up, but they are not liking less and less what they see.
Government schools are a price-fixed monopoly that is giving a service away for FREE! If CEO’s of a private industry were to collude to undercut the price of a service or product in an effort to drive out the competition, they would be facing jail time.
The only solution I see is for conservatives to form private educational foundations that would award grants to individual teachers. The teachers would open **tuition-free** private one room school houses, mini-schools, or homeschool co-ops. The conservative foundations would certify the teacher, approve the curriculum, test the students, and run sport teams and group theater and art programs.
The conservative foundations must also politically organize its parents to work for the complete shut down of the government K-12 system of schools.
If government is giving its educational services away for free, the conservations must match this price: FREE!
We want TRUTH ! We adults can handle TRUTH. I am sick to death of the Lies and Distortions simply because the media thinks everyone outside of the Beltway are complete idiots.
Or sacrifice even more and do it yourself.
A lot of this has to do with the networks going with a "personality trumps all" philosophy and believeing that ratings are the result of nice personalities rather than serious analysis. That's why ABC just picked the sweetly witless Diane Sawyer. Curiously, it's the same philosophy that Obama runs under (and is now stumbling under).
Americans love someone who can deliver a good first impression....we love it for awhile....and then: Rasmussen -11 and going down.
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