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    • Archive for July 17th, 2006

    Another reason why US textbooks are so lousy…

    Monday, July 17th, 2006

    I saw an article in the New York Times (Schoolbooks Are Given F’s in Originality; 2006 July 13) that detailed a controversy broiling for some American history textbooks. It seems that, in describing the 9/11 attacks, the books A History of the United States and America: Pathways to the Present use virtually identical language. [...]