Just last year I was in my senior year at high school and this rubbish was shoved down my throught…yes I could tune it out, but it was my only source of textbook material for the AP tests.

What is also missing from this article is that 8/10 times I’d look at the source of a graphic be it a graph or a poll, the source would be anywhere from the WSJ to the Heritage foundation, very few NYT and I think one mentioning of a Brookings Institute graph…

I raised similar calls to my school officials…sad thing for me was I live in a 90% hardcore conservative region.

If publishers continue to get called out on their biases (and downright lies), hopefully schools will take notice and refuse to do business with them.

For an analysis of how much attention schools will pay to this, I suggest Feynman’s article “Judging Books by their Covers” (http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm). In summary, don’t expect them to make rational decisions or to consider the quality of the text in purchasing decisions.

I can’t figure out why the right is always trying to indoctrinate kids in high school, with creationism, global warming, and government classes. For one, how many high school kids are really paying attention

Indoctrination typically works by throwing things in when people aren’t really paying attention; if they were actually paying attention, they’d realize that it was all nonsense.

and second, why not just give the facts and let the kids decide for themselves if they’re right wing Republican or leftie Democrat. More often than not, young people will decide in college, and hopefully, it will be based on facts, research, and a good understanding of the issues.

Those with a college education are Democrats by a large majority, so it would seem that giving people all the facts and letting them make an objective decision wouldn’t be a wise move on the Republican’s part. In fact, there’s also a fairly strong positive correlation between voter turnout and Democrats winning (disclaimer: that is, in the data I’ve looked at, namely my local and national data from the last 50 years or so, which may not be representative of anything else), so it’s actually in the Republicans’ interest (assuming causation as well as correlation) to stop as many people as they can from voting, which looking at their history with the Motor-Voter Act, vote counting lawsuits, etc., is indeed what they seem to be attempting.

Just take a look at Venus if you want to know if the greenhouse effect exists.

James Loewen pointed out that most history texts contain tons of factual inaccuracies, so the idea that there’s a definite religious bias in most texts is not surprising. Just publishers trying to cover their asses, I guess.