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In a Houghton Mifflin Company College Text Book here is what they are teaching about the Morrill Tariff: Morrill Tariff (March 2, 1861), law passed to increase tariff rates in an effort to help business because of poor economic conditions during the Civil War. The rates were gradually increased during and after the conflict, bringing in revenue to help pay for the war.http://college.hmco.com/history/readerscomp/gahff/html/ff_129200_morrilltarif.htmThe Truth: The U.S. House of Representatives, under the influence of this Northern protectionist lobby, "actually passed the Morrill tariff in its 1859-60 session, prior to the departure of southern congressman from the House of Representatives," write McGuire...

Islam and the Textbooks surveys content in seven widely adopted world history textbooks used across the country in grades seven through twelve. It reviews coverage of jihad, sharia, slavery, status of women, and terrorism, comparing lesson content to prominent histories and recognized sources. It focuses on the high school textbooks adopted in Texas in 2002.This review faults world history textbooks on one of the most complicated and important subjects teachers face in classrooms today. What may seem on the surface to be a minor curriculum controversy has far-reaching implications for civic education and the promotion of American constitutional values. Its...

Textbooks widely used in New York's Islamic schools contain passages that are blatantly anti-semetic, condemning Jews as a people, repeating old canards about the Jews wanting to kill Christ and faking their Holy scripture to mock God.The Islamic texts teach that "the jews" killed their own prophets and betrayed the Prophet Muhammed through their inherent deceitfulness.The books, obtained during a three month Daily News investigation that included visits to private Muslim schools, are rife with inaccuracies, sweeping condemnations of Jews and Christians, and triumphalist declarations of Islam's supremacy. In Long Island City, Queens, for example, fifth and sixth graders at...

It is now obvious that American children know very little about the history of their own nation. This past year the U.S. Department of Education released its History Report Card and the results were predictably awful: 57 percent of high school seniors flunked even a basic knowledge of American history, and only 10 percent tested at grade level. What is less obvious—and more dangerous—is that the history they do know is utterly subversive of American culture and values. I recently attended the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, the nation's largest and most influential organization of academic historians. What...

Posted on Fri, Feb. 21, 2003 Radical Islam is sanitized for American textbooks By Suzanne Fields WASHINGTON TIMES One man's jihad can be another man's mission of distortion. The Islamist terrorists who attacked America on Sept. 11 cited their murderous rampage as a "jihad." The suicide bombers who terrorize Israeli schools, restaurants and malls called their mission their "jihad." But American school kids might never know anything about it. A lot has gone missing in our textbooks. "Patterns of History," for example, published by Houghton Mifflin and adopted as a world history textbook in high school classes in Texas and...

NEW YORK, Feb. 12 (JTA) — A new survey speaks volumes about Saudi Arabian attitudes toward Jews, Christians and the West. An analysis of 93 state-sponsored textbooks in Saudi Arabia, conducted by the Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace in partnership with the American Jewish Committee, finds that Saudi students are being taught that “Jews are wickedness in its very essence,” “Zionism is a nationalist, racist and aggressive movement” and the West “is the source of the past and present misfortunes in the Muslim world.” “This report is a smoking gun,” said David Harris, executive director of the AJCommittee....

The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (CMIP), which has conducted surveys of Israeli, Syrian and PA school textbooks in the past, has undertaken a similar survey of Saudi Arabian textbooks, with the cooperation of the American Jewish Committee. The report presents the worldview to which Saudi students aged 6-16 are exposed through their textbooks. The study examined 93 books taught in grades 1-10, mostly from the years 1999-2002. Some of its main findings are the following: * Education in Saudi Arabia is centered around Islam, and Saudi Arabia is presented as a country where Islam plays the dominant...

The Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace (CMIP) issued a comprehensive report in November 2001 on the textbooks published by the Palestinian Authority in the years 2000-2001 for grades 1, 2, 6, 7 and 11 . Since then, more books have been added to the Palestinian curriculum, which necessitated a follow-up study. The present complementary report deals with 14 newly received books, in addition to 26 high school final examinations in various subjects from the years 2000 and 2002. Though constituting an integral part of the official curriculum and a clear indication to core issues emphasized by the educational...

Now if it were true that Horace and the great poets of the English Renaissance advocated the pursuit of pleasure in response to aging and death, textbook publishers could be reproached with at most a failure to warn students that pleasure is not the same thing as happiness, which is the result of virtue. But it is not true. And finding out why it is not true means unlearning most of what we have been taught about English literature and learning how to fill the rest of our lives with glimpses of heaven.

<p>More than 40 years ago, the film "Inherit the Wind" presented the controversy over the teaching of evolution as a battle between stick-figure fundamentalists who defend a literal reading of Genesis and saintly scientists who simply want to teach the facts of biology. Ever since, journalists have tended to depict almost any battle over evolution in the schools as if it were a replay of "Inherit the Wind"--even if it's not.</p>

SACRAMENTO - Faced with opposition from the textbook-publishing industry, two Inland lawmakers weakened their school-backpack bill but kept it alive Tuesday. The Assembly approved, 71-1, a measure that would require the state to mull whether heavy book bags that pediatricians say harm youngsters' spines can be avoided or made lighter. Assemblyman Russ Bogh, R-Cherry Valley, said backpacks have created an epidemic of back problems among young people. Assemblyman Rod Pacheco, R-Riverside, who is the bill's principal author, said he hopes the Senate will strengthen the measure. As it emerged from the Assembly, AB 2532 would require the state Board of...

Oak Ridge National Lab to help check textbook facts By DUNCAN MANSFIELD Associated Press Writer OAK RIDGE, Tenn. - The chemical makeup of water. H2O, two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. Check. Light moves at a faster speed than sound. Check. Some of the nation's top scientists will soon make sure scientific facts like these are right in Tennessee textbooks. Physicists, chemists and biologists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory volunteered for the fact-checking in response to a national concern over error-filled textbooks in public schools. "The intent is that we would provide some help in checking for accuracy...

<p>NO ONE can argue with the notion that teachers should be involved in selecting textbooks, shaping curriculum and setting educational goals.</p> <p>The teachers should have a major voice, but not the only voice, in these critical decisions.</p> <p>It is equally important that these decisions be made in a public process with an opportunity for input from everyone with a stake or expertise in public education. And the decisions must be based on what is best for the students.</p>