Jesus was a Palestinian?
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Authors Warn That Many Textbooks Distort Religion;
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This is an important article, especially for Parents regardless of whether you are home schooling or using government schools.
Authors Warn That Many Textbooks Distort Religion;
Complete Article HERE: FOXNews.com - Authors Warn That Many Textbooks Distort Religion - Local News | News Articles | National News | US News
One example is in the glossary of "World History: Continuity and Change." It calls the Ten Commandments "moral laws Moses claimed to have received from the Hebrew God" while the entry for the Koran contains no qualifier in saying it is the "Holy Book of Islam containing revelations received by Muhammad from God."
Experts agree, though, that part of the problem rests in the fact that there are so few textbook publishers. Seventy-five percent of public school books are published by just three companies: Houghton-Mifflin, McGraw-Hill, and Pearson Education. None responded to requests for comment for this story.
"It's a big problem right now that we have so few choices in our textbooks," Haynes said. "This is an industry. ... It's a marketplace. They're trying to sell their textbooks."
But Ybarra said it goes deeper than pure economics. He thinks textbooks are being used as tools for propaganda, particularly in negative attitudes towards Christianity and Israel and pro-Palestinian views concerning the Middle East.