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Texas Textbooks And Teaching The Civil War And America’s History Of Racial Segregation
Audio File: http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2015-07-08/texas-textbooks-and-teaching-the-civil-war-and-americas-history-of-racial-segregation
Texas textbooks are in the news again. Five years ago, state education officials created a stir when they changed curriculum guidelines to address what some on the board of education saw as a liberal bias. Those changes were incorporated into new textbooks. Now the textbooks are ready for delivery to about 5 million Texas students when school begins in the fall. Critics say the revisions whitewash America’s history of racial segregation and distort the causes of the Civil War. Texas officials dispute the charges. We look at the controversy over teaching American history in Texas and elsewhere.
Guests
- Isabel Wilkerson Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of "The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration."
- Emma Brown education reporter, The Washington Post.
- Robert Hicks community preservationist and author of "The Widow of the South" and "A Separate Country."
- Donald McLeroy former chairman of the Texas Board of Education.
- James W. Loewen sociologist and author of "Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong."
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