Posted on 01/13/2020 5:26:09 AM PST by karpov
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California is one of many states to ask teachers and textbooks in recent years to cover the contributions of specific immigrant groups, including Asian-Americans, Pacific Islanders, European-Americans and Mexican-Americans.
These additions are part of the reason California books are almost always longer than their Texas counterparts.
California’s Board of Education adopted an expansive 842-page social studies framework in 2016. Two years later, Texas’ school board streamlined its social studies standards, which are now laid out in 78 tightly compressed pages.
Critics of California’s approach say that making state standards and textbooks longer and more inclusive can be overwhelming to teachers trying to move quickly through hundreds of years of material.
Texas policymakers feel strongly about giving students a positive view of the American economy; since 1995, state law has required that high school economics courses offer an “emphasis on the free enterprise system and its benefits.” That emphasis seems to have made its way into the history curriculum as well.
California’s curriculum materials, by contrast, sometimes read like a brief from a Bernie Sanders rally. “The yawning gap between the haves and have-nots and what is to be done about it is one of the great questions of this time,” says the state’s 2016 social studies framework.
As a result, California textbooks are more likely to celebrate unionism, critique the concentration of wealth and focus on how industry pollutes the environment.
Both the California and Texas 11th-grade textbooks from Pearson state, “The main argument against environmental legislation is that it hurts the economy and the nation’s industries.”
The Texas edition goes further to highlight criticism of federal efforts to subsidize the green energy industry: “Republicans accuse the government of wasting taxpayers’ money, for example by supporting the failed solar manufacturer Solyndra.”
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California pushes homofascist history on students at all ages and California Democrats lifted the restriction against Communists and seditionists teaching in California schools.
Students are screwed.
I won’t pay the Slimes. I don’t supposed they mentioned our #1 bestseller, “A Patriot’s History of the United States,” which is used in over 100 high schools, 30 colleges, and is the main text for homeschoolers and independent teachers?
BTW, I was fortunate to work with Bill Ames who was instrumental in getting the Texas textbooks changed a few years ago to include, well, common sense, patriotism, and accuracy.
Do they teach how Harvey Milk championed cult and mass-suicide leader Jim Jones, even writing President Carter on his behalf?
Granddaughter’s Texas HS AP Economics text is “Kruggman” -—Yes, that Kruggman. Wonder what it has to say about supply side economics?
“American history textbooks can differ across the country, in ways that are shaded by partisan politics.”
Ya think
So says the largest partisan newspaper in the history of America.
History isn’t taught anymore.
Period.
Took 8 words for NYT to lie.
>>> our #1 bestseller, “A Patriot’s History of the United States,”
I have an autographed copy.
; )
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