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Censorship from the left and right distorts textbooks / Anne C. Westwater -- Conservatives are attempting to insert bias into textbooks / Mariah Blake -- Textbooks display a liberal bias and an anti-American slant / Marcia Segelstein -- Textbooks are biased in favor of American ethnocentrism / James W. Loewen -- Textbooks are biased against women in America / Rae Lesser Blumberg -- Textbooks are biased in favor of Islam / Gary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra -- Textbooks are not biased in favor of Islam / Susan Douglass -- Textbooks are biased in favor of evolution / Casey Luskin -- Textbooks that teach evolution are not biased / Glenn Branch -- The abstinence-only sex education curriculum is biased and dangerous / Eric Alterman and George Zornick -- The abstinence-only sex education curriculum is effective / Christine Kim and Robert Rector -- Textbook content should be controlled by experts / Marie Landau -- Parents should have more choice in curriculum content / Andrew J. Coulson -- Textbook biases are indicative of broader educational problems / Sara Mayeux.

Presents articles discussing issues regarding bias in textbooks, including alleged partisan censorship, parental participation in curriculum content, and bias involving such subjects as evolution, Islam, and sex education.