Textbooks

In September 1947, the MOE announced that it would introduce a textbook screening system in 1948. This order also claimed the halt of the publication of state-authored textbooks. In 1950, the MOE announced that it would cease writing textbooks, though it tried to reintroduce its own textbooks in 1952. Then, the MOE decided to stop publishing state-authored textbooks. In 1952, new non-governmental history textbooks published by seven different presses started to enter Japanese middle schools. The…

Christopher Columbus has changed tremendously. I thought that Columbus was an explorer; however, after reading the article I now know that he enslaved people and took their lands. The article I read, mentioned textbooks and how they left out important details about history. The authors of the textbooks were trying to make certain people look like a hero even though they had killed and hurt many people trying to accomplish their goals. The article gives multiple examples of how this happened.…

presentation and textbook in support of your analysis. Both the textbook and the audio talk about how important race is because of the social meaning people have attached to it. The textbook and the audio that I viewed talked about America been a “one drop rule.” Both the textbook and the audio talk about having one drop of blood in you than you are considered to be a black person.…

Most of the facts he told aren’t talked about in classrooms or textbooks. From classic American heroes, to the United States government, he debunked each commonly believed lie that is preached throughout countless history textbooks. Loewen told how textbooks try to cover up the bad parts of historic people, to make their story more relatable and inspirational. He showed how textbooks made up complete lies about many historical figures, such as Christopher Columbus, to fit…

University, tells and shows you why poor school don’t success as much as other schools on standardized tests. Broussard goes out to a several of the schools close by to her and finds out information about the courses they have, the textbooks and supplies they have, and the textbooks and supplies they still need. She uses all this information to explain what causes poorer schools to perform at lower levels than other schools that have more money.…

slavery Race plays an important factor in politics and many pop culture aspects dealt with racial issues such as Gone With The Wind; but showcasing slavery as "a social structure of harmony and grace that did no harm to anyone, white or black" Today, textbooks showcase the lack of freedom and inhuman treatment of slaves; they also divulge on how slavery affected politics in the nineteenth century as the ideology behind slavery became more overtly racist in the…

new information and gain our knowledge. However, textbooks do not enlighten the reader with exact information, since they do not reinforce a myriad number of precise topics and facts of historical events or any information in general. Such as, when desiring to ascertain an infinite amount of new information on historical events, in this case being on the American West during the mid and late 1800’s, not only can we gather information from textbooks and from Chapter 18 on “HIST4” (Volume 2. U.S…

have learned was about History, History’s textbooks, Publishers of textbooks, and the story of America. History is a course that is supposed to tell the stories of the past to the present generation. However, History presents the stories not as they exactly occurred. The stories of the past of America were not told exactly as they had happened to the simple fact that publishers of textbooks wanted to satisfy or to please a group of people. So, textbook had modified or transformed the American’s…

about a textbook that is customized for each student’s needs and interests and includes opportunities for interactive practice and collaboration with others. That is the potential of tablets” (Karen). iPads and tablets should be included into the learning of a student even though there could be some major future issues. Tablets are the tool of the future because modern technology is evolving and opening opportunities of doing work faster. In school, tablets can help hold over hundreds of…

“A Single Migration from Africa Populated the World, Studies Find” Questions How is this account different from what is in the textbook? This account emphasizes on the fact that all human species originated from Africa, and many statements are Afrocentric. In the textbook, the author rarely focuses on the similarity between species, but mainly on the diverse groups of hominids and other species. The book explains the various cultures, habitats and fossil records of hominids and how they relied…