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What are LIBS teaching our kids about our (supposed) past / history ? answers below
Posted by:
uncle same
()
Date: February 21, 2018 01:32PM
http://www.doe.virginia.gov/instruction/textbooks/history_social_science/us_1865_present/index.shtml
APPROVED BOOKS FOR HISTORY 1895-PRESENT (note: after 3rd grade)
Glencoe, The American Journey, Modern Times (print)
Glencoe, The American Journey, Modern Times (electronic)
Holt McDougal, United States History, Civil War to the Present, Virginia Student Edition (print)
Holt McDougal, United States History, Civil War to the Present, Virginia Interactive Online Edition (Contract length subscription) (electronic)
Oxford Press, A History of US, Books 7-10 (print)
Pearson Prentice Hall, America: History of Our Nation, 1865 to Present, Virginia Edition (print)
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These books are $100 each and I cannot find a way to search the text (ie, google will not allow it, while google exposes many books and were sued for bankrupting small publishers. this is a kind of information attack to cripple america: to expose the books we wanted others to pay for, and keep secret from reporters what our children are being taught in schools)
APPROVED BOOKS FOR HISTORY 1895-PRESENT (note: after 3rd grade)
Glencoe, The American Journey, Modern Times (print)
Glencoe, The American Journey, Modern Times (electronic)
Holt McDougal, United States History, Civil War to the Present, Virginia Student Edition (print)
Holt McDougal, United States History, Civil War to the Present, Virginia Interactive Online Edition (Contract length subscription) (electronic)
Oxford Press, A History of US, Books 7-10 (print)
Pearson Prentice Hall, America: History of Our Nation, 1865 to Present, Virginia Edition (print)
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These books are $100 each and I cannot find a way to search the text (ie, google will not allow it, while google exposes many books and were sued for bankrupting small publishers. this is a kind of information attack to cripple america: to expose the books we wanted others to pay for, and keep secret from reporters what our children are being taught in schools)
Re: What are LIBS teaching our kids about our (supposed) past / history ? answers below
Posted by:
jnttf
()
Date: February 21, 2018 01:59PM
Oxford Press, A History of US, Books 7-10 (print)
Oxford University Press promotes these books as instructional materials, and the California State Board of Education has adopted them for use in California's public schools.
AND VA DEMOCRATS TOO, NEWLY
written by a single author (uh oh) Joy Hakim (vermont teacher who also taught in VA and worked with publishers). the issue with one author is a lack of bias and fact checking of (a version of a story).
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YOU GUESSED IT: some historians are not happy with this VA democrat MANDATED pick - for bias and inaccuracy.
http://www.textbookleague.org/121hakm.htm
... has been criticized by the president of the Textbook League, William J. Bennetta. In particular, the concept of multiculturalism, including an asserted Chinese influence on European culture in The First Americans, has been criticized by Bennetta for its lack of support by archaeological or historical records ...
page 11 Hakim now brings forth an excessively rosy picture of Muslim Spain, beginning with this claim:
"[The period of Islamic rule] was a splendid era in Spain. It was a time of religious tolerance: Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together in harmony."
In the Moorish parts of Spain (as in other regions that were controlled by Muslims during medieval times), Jews and Christians were tolerated but were subjected to gross restrictions: They were formally barred from positions of power, and they were politically and legally inferior to Muslims. Islamic law regarded Jews and Christians as subjugated people who had to acknowledge the political dominion of Islam, in accordance with a prescription in sura 9 of the Koran.
pages 11 and 12 Continuing her exaltation of the Moors, Hakim writes:
"The Moors built great cities with centers of learning. Agriculture flourished in Spain as it never had before or has since." (Moors = Muslim attackers who burned and or stole the great Greek library and killed the librarians)
Hakim's claim about agriculture can't be supported, because we do not have the statistics that we would need for comparing agricultural productivity in Moorish Spain with agricultural productivity in Spain during Roman times or during the early modern period, after the Moors were expelled
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Meanwhile, every information/history source OP has seen clearly depicts Spain as a composite of several blood lines, bloodily. Of many warlord leaders, each toppling the last ... and that from which the Spanish Inquisition (which many claim was purely for conquest and a mocking of Christ). A past marked by ruling by the sword is shown in any history of Spain I've read: with proof btw.
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(note: most or all school history books have mistakes later found by evidence to be not wholey true, misguided, etc, yet the stories must be told or students cannot learn ... in a manner history students expect to read)
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Oxford University Press promotes these books as instructional materials, and the California State Board of Education has adopted them for use in California's public schools.
AND VA DEMOCRATS TOO, NEWLY
written by a single author (uh oh) Joy Hakim (vermont teacher who also taught in VA and worked with publishers). the issue with one author is a lack of bias and fact checking of (a version of a story).
----------------------
YOU GUESSED IT: some historians are not happy with this VA democrat MANDATED pick - for bias and inaccuracy.
http://www.textbookleague.org/121hakm.htm
... has been criticized by the president of the Textbook League, William J. Bennetta. In particular, the concept of multiculturalism, including an asserted Chinese influence on European culture in The First Americans, has been criticized by Bennetta for its lack of support by archaeological or historical records ...
page 11 Hakim now brings forth an excessively rosy picture of Muslim Spain, beginning with this claim:
"[The period of Islamic rule] was a splendid era in Spain. It was a time of religious tolerance: Jews, Muslims and Christians lived together in harmony."
In the Moorish parts of Spain (as in other regions that were controlled by Muslims during medieval times), Jews and Christians were tolerated but were subjected to gross restrictions: They were formally barred from positions of power, and they were politically and legally inferior to Muslims. Islamic law regarded Jews and Christians as subjugated people who had to acknowledge the political dominion of Islam, in accordance with a prescription in sura 9 of the Koran.
pages 11 and 12 Continuing her exaltation of the Moors, Hakim writes:
"The Moors built great cities with centers of learning. Agriculture flourished in Spain as it never had before or has since." (Moors = Muslim attackers who burned and or stole the great Greek library and killed the librarians)
Hakim's claim about agriculture can't be supported, because we do not have the statistics that we would need for comparing agricultural productivity in Moorish Spain with agricultural productivity in Spain during Roman times or during the early modern period, after the Moors were expelled
-------------------
Meanwhile, every information/history source OP has seen clearly depicts Spain as a composite of several blood lines, bloodily. Of many warlord leaders, each toppling the last ... and that from which the Spanish Inquisition (which many claim was purely for conquest and a mocking of Christ). A past marked by ruling by the sword is shown in any history of Spain I've read: with proof btw.
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(note: most or all school history books have mistakes later found by evidence to be not wholey true, misguided, etc, yet the stories must be told or students cannot learn ... in a manner history students expect to read)
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Re: What are LIBS teaching our kids about our (supposed) past / history ? answers below
Posted by:
EEXEX
()
Date: February 21, 2018 03:45PM
Study: Are Liberals Smarter Than Conservatives?
"The short answer: Kanazawa's paper shows that more-intelligent people are more likely to say they are liberal. They are also less likely to say they go to religious services. These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more likely to grow into adults who vote for Liberal Democrats, even after the researchers controlled for socioeconomics."
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968042,00.html
Trump Won Because Voters Are Ignorant, Literally
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/10/the-dance-of-the-dunces-trump-clinton-election-republican-democrat/
Why Liberals are more intelligent than Conservatives
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives
A Wider Ideological Gap Between More and Less Educated Adults
http://www.people-press.org/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/
"The short answer: Kanazawa's paper shows that more-intelligent people are more likely to say they are liberal. They are also less likely to say they go to religious services. These aren't entirely new findings; last year, for example, a British team found that kids with higher intelligence scores were more likely to grow into adults who vote for Liberal Democrats, even after the researchers controlled for socioeconomics."
http://content.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1968042,00.html
Trump Won Because Voters Are Ignorant, Literally
http://foreignpolicy.com/2016/11/10/the-dance-of-the-dunces-trump-clinton-election-republican-democrat/
Why Liberals are more intelligent than Conservatives
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamentalist/201003/why-liberals-are-more-intelligent-conservatives
A Wider Ideological Gap Between More and Less Educated Adults
http://www.people-press.org/2016/04/26/a-wider-ideological-gap-between-more-and-less-educated-adults/