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_bA74 2012
082 0 0 _a371.3/2
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245 0 0 _aAre textbooks biased? /
_cNoah Berlatsky, book editor.
260 _aFarmington Hills, MI :
_bGreenhaven Press,
_cc2012.
300 _a128 p.
_c24 cm.
490 1 _aAt issue
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 0 _tCensorship from the left and right distorts textbooks /
_rAnne C. Westwater --
_tConservatives are attempting to insert bias into textbooks /
_rMariah Blake --
_tTextbooks display a liberal bias and an anti-American slant / Marcia Segelstein --
_tTextbooks are biased in favor of American ethnocentrism /
_rJames W. Loewen --
_tTextbooks are biased against women in America /
_rRae Lesser Blumberg --
_tTextbooks are biased in favor of Islam /
_rGary A. Tobin and Dennis R. Ybarra --
_tTextbooks are not biased in favor of Islam /
_rSusan Douglass --
_tTextbooks are biased in favor of evolution /
_rCasey Luskin --
_tTextbooks that teach evolution are not biased /
_rGlenn Branch --
_gThe
_tabstinence-only sex education curriculum is biased and dangerous /
_rEric Alterman and George Zornick --
_gThe
_tabstinence-only sex education curriculum is effective /
_rChristine Kim and Robert Rector --
_tTextbook content should be controlled by experts /
_rMarie Landau --
_tParents should have more choice in curriculum content /
_rAndrew J. Coulson --
_tTextbook biases are indicative of broader educational problems /
_rSara Mayeux.
520 _aPresents 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.
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650 0 _aCensorship
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650 7 _aCensorship
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700 1 _aBerlatsky, Noah.
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830 0 _aAt issue.
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