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Title Are textbooks biased? / Noah Berlatsky, book editor.

Imprint Detroit : Greenhaven Press, c2012.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 FSCC Reference  R 016 ISS TEX 2012    ---  Available
Description 128 p. 24 cm.
Series At issue.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Censorship from the left and right distorts textbooks / Anne C. Westwater -- Conservatives are attempting to insert bias into textbooks / Mariah Black -- 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 evoltion / 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.
Subject Textbooks -- United States.
Censorship -- United States.
Added Author Berlatsky, Noah.
ISBN 9780737755503 (hardcover)
0737755504 (hardcover)
9780737755510 (pbk.)
0737755512 (pbk.)

 
    
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