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      Textbook debate: It's all about the evidence Steven C. MeyerHouston ChronicleSeptember 19, 2003 CYNICAL old lawyers have a maxim: When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When neither is on your side, change the subject and question the motives of the opposition. That seems to be the strategy of many Darwinists now that the Texas State Board of Education has begun to evaluate whether current biology textbooks meet state standards for accuracy in their presentation of Darwin's theory of evolution. Consider...

Reductions in funding leaves schools with outdated textbooks AUSTIN — Texas history teachers this year won't have to use antiquated textbooks that name Dan Morales as attorney general. After all, the state's former top legal official is headed to federal prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion charges. Other textbooks won't be as current. Despite pleas from the state Board of Education, the Legislature cut textbook funding by $182 million this year. As the school year begins, some books are as many as 14 years old, and gaffes in accuracy are inevitable. For example: the Food and...

AUSTIN -- Texas history teachers this year won't have to use antiquated textbooks that name Dan Morales as attorney general. After all, the state's former top legal official is headed to federal prison after pleading guilty to mail fraud and tax evasion charges. Other textbooks won't be as current. Despite pleas from the state Board of Education, the Legislature cut textbook funding by $182 million this year. As the school year begins, some books are 14 years old, and gaffes in accuracy are inevitable. For example: The Food and Drug Administration now recommends two to three servings of dairy a...

In rare moments when Congress isn't preoccupied with the war, taxes or prescription drugs, Congress is worrying that American students don't know any American history. Congress is right to worry because this is true, but it doesn't follow that the federal government is capable of remedying the problem. The National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation's Report Card, reported that less than half of high school seniors demonstrate even a basic grasp of history. The American Council of Trustees and Alumni, in a report called "Losing America's Memory: Historical Illiteracy in the 21st Century," charged that 55 colleges...

The debate continues over what information Texas biology books should present. The Texas Board of Education is looking to pick the best science book for students. Members of a campaign called "Stand Up For Science'' said it's meant to protect the accurate teaching of evolution in Texas high school biology textbooks. The push was unveiled on Wednesday by some religious leaders, scientists and parents. It comes as the state Board of Education prepares to adopt new biology textbooks this fall. Terry Maxwell, a professor of biology at Angelo State University, doesn't believe creationism should be in biology textbooks. "Science uses...

WASHINGTON, Aug. 19 (UPI) -- Textbook purchases will be one of the first victims in anticipated education cutbacks due to widespread state budget woes, insiders say, leaving the $9 billion textbook industry prospects weak in the coming years. Moreover, the selection method used by more than half the states to choose books is a high-stakes, winner-take-all process in which publishers invest millions of dollars developing products they're not sure will sell, adding unpredictable demand to an already bleak market outlook. Nationwide, states are slashing budgets in the face of some of the deepest shortfalls in 40 years. Thirty-seven states have...

How the Thought Police Rewrite Textbooks and America's History NewsMax.com Wires Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2003 MIAMI – Diane Ravitch hammers away and hammers away, and even a reader going into her book with a healthy dose of skepticism comes away with the conviction that the "language police" must be fired. It's hard to believe when she says guidelines by the Scott Foresman-Addison Wesley textbook publishers demand that people "over the age of 65 must be fully represented in text and illustrations; there must be a larger number of older women than older men, because 55 percent of older persons are...

When Christian Educators Prefer Islam By Jen Shroder Due to the efforts of Christian Educators Association International (CEAI) and others, public school textbooks remain rife with Muslim indoctrination. When the textbook publisher, Houghton Mifflin (HM), came under fire last year with accusations of proselytizing Islam, Forrest Turpen, Executive Director of CEAI, publicly defended the textbook. TruthorFiction.com (link below) noted the “Christian group” and wrote, “Turpen says the teaching about Islam has not been "slipped" into the curriculum…In fact," says Turpen, "the state of California has been a leader in requiring a balance of teaching about who we are and...

Textbook publisher tries to cash in by using profs Sunday, August 10, 2003By Jennifer Ackerman-HaywoodThe Grand Rapids Press One thousand dollars is a lot of money to Anna Bates. So when a college textbook publisher offered her the sum to review a history textbook after using it in her Aquinas College history class, she went for the deal. When the book turned out to be authored by historians she admired, it seemed perfect. "I thought, 'Hot damn,'" Bates recalled. She planned to pocket the money. "It's $1,000 for 34 hours of work," the assistant professor said. "That's more than I...

Here's the rub: the same children complain incessantly that their textbooks are boring. Whereas they hunger to get a Harry Potter book of nearly 900 pages, they can barely tolerate the equally large books that are assigned in school. What does Harry Potter have that the textbooks don't? Today's textbooks represent a major achievement in visual design. They glitter with charts, photographs, drawings and pedagogical advice to the reader. But they are boring.

Pakistan's madrassa (religious school) system, where ultra-conservative Muslim clerics dole out an excruciatingly narrow world view, has achieved global notoriety for producing thousands of young men dedicated to holy war. But the public school curriculum weaves in many similar concepts -- including insensitivity to other religions, militancy and the glorification of war. "Honestly speaking, there should be less fear of madrassa curricula, which is comparatively limited in scope, and more fear of the books being used in public schools," said Ahmed Salim, director of Urdu publications at Islamabad's Sustainable Policy Development Institute (SPDI). "While President (Pervez) Musharraf has spoken passionately...

<p>Educators bracing for financial disaster were somewhat relieved that the Senate budget plan -- which slashes about $2 billion in school funding -- isn't as damaging as they expected.</p> <p>The Senate plan passed Sunday preserves voter-approved minimum funding for schools and largely mirrors Gov. Gray Davis' budget blueprint issued in May. But the bill, which the Assembly was expected to consider as early as Monday evening, still cuts deeply into specific programs that provide summer school, reading assistance and textbooks for students.</p>

(AgapePress) - It's being called "Jayson Blair-style reporting." CNN is being accused of fabricating a report about scientific critics of Darwinism who recently testified before the Texas State Board of Education.At last week's hearing, two representatives from the Seattle-based Discovery Institute urged the board to correct factual errors in biology textbooks and require that books discuss flaws in evolutionary theory. Discovery Institute's Dr. John West says CNN reported the hearing as a battle between "nasty religious fundamentalists" who wanted to inject the Bible into science textbooks and "enlightened scientists" who wanted to keep that from happening.But West says not one...

It's being called "Jayson Blair-style reporting." CNN is being accused of fabricating a report about scientific critics of Darwinism who recently testified before the Texas State Board of Education.At last week's hearing, two representatives from the Seattle-based Discovery Institute urged the board to correct factual errors in biology textbooks and require that books discuss flaws in evolutionary theory. Discovery Institute's Dr. John West says CNN reported the hearing as a battle between "nasty religious fundamentalists" who wanted to inject the Bible into science textbooks and "enlightened scientists" who wanted to keep that from happening.But West says not one person who...

Here's a quick quiz from an Iraqi elementary-school textbook of the not-too-recent past: What do you get when you add three rocket-propelled grenades and four Kalashnikov rifles? If you guessed simply "seven weapons," you're wrong. The correct answer, of course, is "seven ways to kill the infidel enemy."

One of the most meaningful gauges of the integrity of the peace process and its likelihood of success is the degree to which the parties educate toward peace. It is by this yardstick that the Palestinian Authority's education apparatus, formal and informal, has been such a dismal disappointment. Instead of seizing the opportunity to educate future generations to live with Israel in peace the PA has done everything in its power to fill young minds with hatred. Making matters worse the PA has been spreading two clever lies about its schoolbooks that have succeeded in deflecting international pressure for change....

Dobbs: Schools Banning Words at 'Alarming Rate' Political correctness has so infected the government schools that classroom textbooks are now vetted for bad words and phrases that may upset people. Lou Dobbs reported Monday night on his CNN program that "the list of words and phrases now banned in American classrooms is rising at an alarming rate." "You may be surprised" to find out the innocent words and phrases now being deemed inadmissible in a classroom, Dobbs said. Dobbs' launch pad was author and education expert Diane Ravitch's new book, "The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn."...

Political correctness has so infected the public schools that classroom textbooks are now vetted for bad words and phrases that may upset people. Lou Dobbs reported Monday night on his CNN program that "the list of words and phrases now banned in American classrooms is rising at an alarming rate." "You may be surprised" to find out the innocent words and phrases now being deemed inadmissible in a classroom, Dobbs said. Dobbs' launch pad was author and education expert Diane Ravitch's new book, "The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn." Here are some examples from Ravitch's...

Language Police Bar 'Old,' 'Blind' in Textbooks Wed May 28, 2003 11:01 AM ET By Arthur Spiegelman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Oh heck: Hell hath no place in American primary and high school textbooks. But then again you can't find anyone riding on a yacht or playing polo in the pages of an American textbook either. The texts also can't say someone has a boyish figure, or is a busboy, or is blind, or suffers a birth defect, or is a biddy, or the best man for the job, a babe, a bookworm, or even a barbarian. All these words...