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Fireworks arrive early as school board looks at marriage By Kyle Jorrey Ninth-grade health textbooks in Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) will define marriage as an agreement of partners—not just a man and a woman—after action at Tuesday night’s board of education meeting. Trustees listened to nearly three emotion-filled hours of passionate public debate on the issue of whether or not CVUSD should approve a new ninthgrade health textbook that doesn’t define marriage as a union between a man and a woman. Board members decided to follow the original advice of the committee that reviewed the books. Despite one...

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Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.” True enough. Depicting history is, and always has been, a collective enterprise. But our modern, relativistic culture has made separating fact from fancy increasingly difficult, as political correctness often trumps truth. As a result, we are rewriting history. Nowhere is this more evident than in American classrooms, where our children’s history lessons change with the political winds. Anti-bias guidelines and fears of offending special-interest groups permeate history textbooks, smudging out historical accuracy. Our Founding Fathers are now referred to as androgynous “framers.”...

...To give you some idea how liberals, when they're in the majority, think, you merely have to consider California State Assembly Bill 756. Hold on to your hats because this one's a doozy. It bans school districts from purchasing history textbooks that are longer than 200 pages!...

MARIETTA - The Cobb school board will apparently have until the end of the month to excise more than 34,000 evolution disclaimers inserted in science textbooks now that the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals denied its request to wait on removing the stickers until the appeals court hears the case. On Jan. 13 Federal District Judge Clarence Cooper ruled that the school board's decision to post stickers that call evolution "a theory, not a fact" into school books violates the separation of church and state and had to be "immediately" removed. After hearing a Cobb high school science supervisor...

Chinese textbooks are extreme in their interpretation of history, Japan's foreign minister said yesterday, a day after President Hu Jintao demanded Tokyo do more to improve relations damaged by its approval of new Japanese school textbooks that allegedly whitewash wartime atrocities. But despite the criticism, Nobutaka Machimura hailed the meeting between Mr Hu and Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi in Indonesia on Saturday, saying it paved the way for the two Asian powers to start repairing battered ties that had led to violent anti-Japan protests across China. "From the perspective of a Japanese person, Chinese textbooks appear to teach that...

A school in Arizona removed a seventh-grade textbook on claims the book focuses on the portrayal of Islam. The book's second unit of eight, is on the rise of Islam and the contribution of Muslims to world civilization. The Islamic civilization was in its heyday during the Dark Ages. “History Alive! The Medieval World and Beyond,” was being used on a trial basis at Mohave Middle School in Scottsdale in Tucson.The removal came allegedly after angry e-mails to the school district and entries on conservative Web logs. “I received a significant number of e-mails saying (the book) was Islamic propaganda...

Drafts of a new edition of a history textbook used in Japanese schools have again sparked waves of criticism. Japan's Asian neighbours including China and the Republic of Korea say they have been "deeply hurt" by the "twisted history" in the school books which "again" fail to mention the atrocities the Japanese committed during World War II. The People's Daily, one of the largest circulated newspapers in China, published an article on Friday, saying the books "greatly hurt the feeling of the Asian people" and expressed outrage in an editorial. The paper cited ROK's decision to internationalize the Japanese history...

  How many Americans know that one K-12 civics textbook is directly subsidized by our tax dollars? Because of the government subsidy, schools can buy this textbook (high school version) for $10 a copy—about one-fifth the cost of competitor's textbooks. The book is called We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution and is written and published by the Center for Civic Education (CCE). There are three different editions—grade school, middle school and high school. This book was first funded in 1994 by HR6, the spending bill that was part of the Goals 2000, School-to-Work package. This textbook was re-authorized and...

My apologies for the vanity. As an ex-liberal it has been very rewarding to finally see the truth! I've been reading a lot of lay books on economics such as those by Thomas Sowell. I'd like to read a more formal textbook or two on economics and was wondering if anyone here could recommend some? Also, I'm currently in IT. I have a degree in Pure Mathematics and am considering switching fields to become an actuary. Are there any other good careers that have to do with math and economics? Thanks!

THE son of God has been written out of parts of NSW school English texts. "Before Christ" (BC) has been removed from literacy test history books and replaced with "Before Common Era" (BCE) in what the NSW Opposition described as political correctness gone mad. About 150,000 students who sat through the English Language and Literacy Assessment (ELLA) test on Tuesday were confronted with the new term in an extract entitled "The Surveyor's Problem". It described an event which took place in 590 BCE in Northern Egypt where a Government surveyor had been ordered by the Pharaoh to find out why...

My mother is a teacher and has started working on her Masters Degree. One of her courses is on Family Therapy and she has to plot out her extended family as part of the course work. "Family Themes" was one of things she needed to write down so she asked me for ideas about some of our family themes. I started to look through her textbook to get a better idea of exactly what they wanted. Here is just some of what I found: The Expanded Family Life Cycle Individual, Family, and Social Perspectives Third Edition Edited by Betty Carter...

+ + CENTER FOR RECLAIMING AMERICA Dr. Gary Cass, Executive Director Please forward this message to your friends. --Gary 2/17/05 Sola Veritas, In the past few days, we have seen over 31,000 citizens join you in signing the Center for Reclaiming America's "Our Kids Deserve The Truth" petition, which calls on schools to teach evolution as a theory and not as fact. We now have 96,404 signers, and I'm asking for your help in the next 24 hours to push us over 100,000. + + FORWARD TO YOUR FRIENDS! Please forward this message to your friends and ask them to...

The topic of homosexuality is taboo in the Nebo School District. So the school district in southern Utah County is having trouble finding a replacement for outmoded psychology textbooks at its three high schools. Priscilla Leek, a Springville High School psychology teacher who sits on a district committee that reviews teaching materials, says the world has changed in the seven years since the district last chose a psychology textbook. "Most publishers have now included small amounts - a paragraph or couple of pages - in texts about homosexuality," Leek said. "I don't teach homosexuality. But if it appears in a...

News Alert:On January 13, a federal judge in Georgia ruled that stickers placed in textbooks of an Atlanta area school district saying “Evolution is a theory, not a fact” are unconstitutional! ( View sticker.) According to this judge, such criticisms of evolution are an endorsement of religion. The judge’s action is the latest example of the nationwide effort to ban any critical analysis of the theory of evolution and insist that evolution be taught as the only option! The Action:The Center for Reclaiming America has launched a national petition to rally 100,000 citizens immediately to oppose this federal court...

When I was in school, years ago, we lugged around Samuelson, which spoon-fed Keynes to college students. Does anyone know of a credible college economics textbook that's of a more conservative perspective - giving a supplyside and/or Friedman outlook? There are some college-bound students I'd like to give it to.

ATLANTA, Georgia (AP) -- Since 2002, Dr. Kenneth Miller has been upset that biology textbooks he has written are slapped with a warning sticker by the time they appear in suburban Atlanta schools. Evolution, the stickers say, is "a theory, not a fact."

As previously reported, US District Judge Clarence Cooper handed down (last week) the much-anticipated ruling in the case of Selman v. Cobb County School District, in which parents challenged a school board decision to place evolution disclaimer stickers in the front cover of some high-school biology textbooks in Cobb County, Georgia, USA. Contained within the judge’s 44-page ruling was the answer to the question everyone in the Atlanta area seemed to ask: “Would the sticker stick?” Did this 33-word disclaimer, which cautioned students about evolution, violate the US Constitution by “establishing religion”? Yes, the stickers are an unconstitutional endorsement of...

BreakPoint with Charles Colson Commentary #050118 - 01/18/2005 Sticker Wars A Case of the Blind Leading the Rest of Us Last week a federal judge, egged on by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), ordered a Georgia school district to remove stickers from biology textbooks. Why? Because, according to the judge, a simple statement written on the stickers—that evolution is a theory, not a fact—was an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. He held evolution as fact! This is just the latest example of a plague of intellectual blindness among our secular elites. In Georgia's Cobb County, school officials added the stickers...

ATLANTA (AP) -- A federal judge Thursday ordered a suburban Atlanta school system to remove stickers from its high school biology textbooks that call evolution ``a theory, not a fact,'' saying the disclaimers are an unconstitutional endorsement of religion. ``By denigrating evolution, the school board appears to be endorsing the well-known prevailing alternative theory, creationism or variations thereof, even though the sticker does not specifically reference any alternative theories,'' U.S. District Judge Clarence Cooper said. The stickers were put inside the books' front covers by public school officials in Cobb County in 2002. They read: ``This textbook contains material on...