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ATLANTA (AP) -- Federal judge rules the evolution disclaimer stickers placed inside Cobb County science textbooks are unconsitutional.

WHISTLEBLOWER MAGAZINEEvolution fraud in current biology textbooksExposed as fakes decades ago, major publishers still include them © 2001 WorldNetDaily.com One of the most popular and familiar pieces of evidence used to bolster the theory of evolution – reproduced for decades in most high school and college biology textbooks – is fraudulent, and has been known to be fraudulent for nearly 100 years. Most people have seen those drawings of developing human embryos next to developing animal embryos, and they look virtually indistinguishable. (The Haeckel embryo sequence shown purported to show – left to right – a hog, calf, rabbit and human). This...

Women are under siege and oppressed, while men have it easy. This is the unmistakable message of Margaret L. Andersen's Thinking About Women: Sociological Perspectives on Sex and Gender, one of America's most popular Women's Studies 101 textbooks. The mischaractarizations and distortions begin in Chapter One on page one, where Andersen speaks briefly of the progress which women have made, but soon cautions the reader that "there's still a long way to go" for women to achieve equality. To support her point, she tells us: 1) "In the 1990s, women college graduates who worked full-time earned, on average, 70 percent ...

I have decided to start posting various examples of bias in schools as I observe them firsthand as a high school student. This will not be posted on any schedule, just when I have something to say. There will probably be more posts in the next two weeks, however, as I am off school and have more spare time. Today's inaugural edition will focus on bias in textbooks. The first example comes from my science book. Here is a quote from the chapter on evolution. "You may have heard someone refer to evolution as just a theory, as though this...

USE INTERNET RESOURCES AND OTHER REFERENCES TO RESEARCH TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS. DESCRIBE REASONS FOR THE DECLINE OF THE RAIN FORESTS, AND DISCUSS HOW THE RAIN FORESTS ARE AN INTREGAL PART OF THE EARTH'S ECOSYSTEMS. GUIDE QUESTIONS 1. WHAT ARE "DEBT FOR NATURE" SWAPS? HOW CAN THEY BE USED TO ENCOURAGE THE PROTECTION OF TROPICAL RAINFORESTS? 2. WHY SHOULDN'T DEVELOPING COUNTRIES BE FORCED TO SHOULDER THE BURDEN OF PROTECTING TROPICAL RAIN FORESTS ALONE? 3. WHAT CAN YOU DO TO HELP PRESERVE THE RAIN FOREST?

William H. Schmidt, Michigan State University Papers and Presentations, Mathematics and Science Initiative Today the President addresses a serious issue in American education—How well we as a nation do in educating our children in mathematics. Dr. Loveless has addressed this issue using data from our nation's report card—NAEP. I will address the same issue but from an international point of view. The data are clear. Recent results from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) show that US eighth and twelfth graders do not do well by international standards—ranking below average in both grades and, in fact, near the...

The dwindling cadre of academics who try to hold the line on standards have a particularly rough time of it when choosing textbooks. “Every semester I have to pick a new book and I have to pick the least bad book and it’s really depressing,” Suffolk County Community College professor Thomas E. Woods, Jr. says. “You need a good stiff drink.” “Other conservative academics from across the country have the same problem.” Dr. Woods teaches history at Suffolk, which is affiliated with the State University of New York. His partial solution to the textbook dilemma was to write his own...

WASHINGTON -- If you look closely, what is inside your child's textbooks may shock you. They are full of evolution theories, and many liberal historians are rewriting American history as well. But there is even more. How Islam is portrayed in today's textbooks is a subject of concern also. The familiar images of Islam include praying at Mecca, and the prophet Muhammad, a man Muslims say is the messenger of God. But this is not the whole story. When all is said and done, the story of Islam is being told and taught to our nation's school kids in their...

HANGHAI, Dec. 5 - The history teacher maintained a blistering pace, clicking from one frame quickly to the next, during a lecture on China's relations with the world from 1929 to 1939 in one of this country's most selective high schools. There was Hitler, shown on parade, his hand lifted in the Nazi salute. The teacher mimicked the gesture, to brief laughter, announcing the year the dictator came to power, with no pause for a discussion of fascism. Pushing ahead quickly, he said the United States was exploiting Canadian and Latin American resources, while Britain fed off India. Wherever it...

November 9, 2004 Evolution Sticker on Trial by Terry Phillips, correspondent Warnings about Darwin's theory of man's origin challenged in court. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is challenging a Georgia law that requires science textbooks to have a warning sticker reminding students that the theory of evolution is just that, a theory. The argument presented in court by the ACLU claims the stickerâ€"approved by Atlanta's Cobb County school board at the urging of 2,000 parentsâ€"discriminates against some religions, promotes creationism and restricts the teaching of evolution. Seth Cooper, an attorney who helped to file a friend of the court...

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- A warning sticker in suburban Atlanta science textbooks that says evolution is "a theory, not a fact" was challenged in court Monday as an unlawful promotion of religion. The disclaimer was adopted by Cobb County school officials in 2002 after hundreds of parents signed a petition criticizing the textbooks for treating evolution as fact without discussing alternate theories, including creationism.

The Texas Board of Education approved new health textbooks after the publishers gave in to last-minute pressure from some board members to define marriage as a "lifelong union" between a man and woman. The decision Friday, which involves two of the biggest textbook publishers, is an example of Texas exerting its clout as the nation's second-largest buyer of textbooks. Officials say the decision could affect hundreds of thousands of books in Texas alone. Board member Terri Leo, a Republican, said she was pleased with the publishers' changes. She led the effort to get the publishers to change the texts, objecting...

On August 26, the Tokyo Education Board adopted a new public school history textbook filled with nationalistic bias involving distortions of historical facts and exoneration of the Japanese invasion of Asian countries and the rounding-up of women in occupied areas for use as sex slaves for its military personnel.

MOSCOW - If you can judge a book by its cover, then the History of Russia and the World in the 20th Century tells students the Soviet past was all pride and glory — three of four cover photos invoke Soviet propaganda images. That goes for what's inside, too: The textbook for Russian high school seniors touts the Soviet system's achievements — but treads lightly, if at all, on its failures and abuses. It is virtually mute on the deportation of ethnic groups under Josef Stalin that left hundreds of thousands dead and sowed the resentment that exploded in Chechnya...

BROWNSVILLE -- South Texas college students looking to save money are heading to Mexico to copy their textbooks before returning them for a refund. Jules Frapart, general manager of the Book Bee in Brownsville, said students commonly buy books from him, copy them in Matamoros, Mexico, and return them. An employee at Papeleria La Espanola in Matamoros said it costs 3.5 U.S. cents per page to copy a book. Pasting or binding the book costs $2.36. That adds up to less than $13 to copy a 300-page book. Textbooks range in price from $20 to more than $100 at Frapart's...

Here are a few things students in this country will not find in their history books but that students from certain other countries may know for a fact: a) Our revolution was inspired by the work of the French Enlightenment philosophers (not the essays of John Locke). b) We won that war largely because the British commanders were slow and blundering (not because of the wisdom and determination of George Washington). c) What we thought of as a revolution was for many inhabitants of British North America an extended civil war, in which many were forced into exile. d) After...

The lesson for Texas teens is that the only safe sex is no sex, and that may be a lesson that heads nationwide. Texas educators are debating what will be taught in new sexual education textbooks for its high school students. The 15-member Texas Board of Education is considering and will likely approve four books, all of which extol the virtues of abstinence. Three make no mention of contraceptives at all while one makes passing reference to condoms. Critics are crying foul, saying that a lesson of abstinence alone is dangerous because it could lead to more teen pregnancies and...

HAD you gone to high school in Norway, your textbook would have taught you Columbus was old news: the most important arrival in America was the Viking Leif Ericson's in the early 10th century. If, on the other hand, you'd spent your teenage years in Cuba, you'd have learned that when Columbus discovered Cuba, he thought it was the promised land and didn't want to go any farther. These and other extracts in ''History Lessons: How Textbooks From Around the World Portray U.S. History'' tell us two things: historical narratives are biased and untrustworthy; and America's impact on the world...

No Child Left Unbrainwashed By Edgar B. Anderson FrontPageMagazine.com | July 1, 2004 As countless numbers of immigrants continue to pour into the United States, the Left has been trying to destroy any patriotic thoughts these new Americans might develop toward their adopted country. One can see an example of this phenomenon by perusing the textbooks used in the nation's English-as-a-Second Language (ESL) programs. High Point, Success in Language-Literature-Content, Level B, is an English-as-a Second Language literature anthology textbook published by Hampton-Brown and intended for middle and high school students whose English vocabulary and reading level is at the sixth...

India's new government is poised to rewrite the history taught to schoolchildren after a panel of eminent historians recommended scrapping textbooks written by scholars hand-picked by the previous Hindu nationalist administration. Hundreds of thousands of textbooks are likely to be dropped by the National Council of Educational Research and Training, the central government body that sets the national curriculum for students up to 18. The move, one of the first made by the new Congress-led government, will strongly signal a departure from the program of its predecessor. The "saffronisation" of history, critics of the last government say, depicted India's Muslim...