Claim: College Textbook Labels Christianity a ‘White Supremacist Group’
A senior at the University of North Georgia is voicing her shock after buying a textbook that apparently labeled Christianity as a white supremacist group.
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Katie Porter Earned Thousands Off Textbooks She Required Students to Purchase
Democrat Rep. Katie Porter (D-CA), a former University of California Irvine (UCI) law professor whose net worth is estimated to be as high as $2 million, earned thousands of dollars in royalty payments after she required her students to purchase textbooks she authored.
Ron DeSantis Defends Florida Rejecting Dozens of Books Due to Common Core, CRT: ‘That Doesn’t Meet the Standards’
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) defended the Florida Department of Education for rejecting dozens of books due to what it says is the infusion of Common Core and Critical Race Theory (CRT), as the governor made it clear that such material “doesn’t meet the standards” of the Sunshine State.
Publisher Retracts Chemistry Textbook over Allegations of Extensive Wikipedia Plagiarism
Academic publisher Elsevier has retracted an entire chemistry textbook about the periodic table of elements this year after learning of allegations that significant portions were copied from Wikipedia uncredited, at times including near-verbatim text. The apparent plagiarism was uncovered by a Wikipedia editor who attempted and failed to get the book’s authors to address the issue before contacting the publisher.
College Textbook Prices Drop for First Time in Two Decades
New data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) suggests that “educational books” have dropped in price for the first time in almost 20 years.
Report: North Korean Textbooks Teach Children Seoul Relies on ‘Generosity’ of the North
North Korean schools teach children to inform on their parents for the communist regime, Japan’s Ahasi Shimbun detailed in a report on Tuesday.
Watch: Gavin Newsom Promoted in First-Grade Textbook
“The state of California is using first-grade history textbooks to indoctrinate children to support current California state politicians,” Fitzgerald says in the video.
American Publisher Apologizes For ‘Anti-Semitic’ Directives in Textbook
TEL AVIV – An American publishing house has issued an apology for claiming in a nursing textbook that Jewish patients are often “vocal and demanding of assistance.”
China Debuts Textbooks Giving Children ‘Strong Sense’ Beijing Controls South China Sea
The Global Times, a Chinese state newspaper, announced Thursday that the government would soon debut a new series of textbooks that would “place greater emphasis” on the mid-20th century war between China and Japan and give them “a strong sense” of China’s claims in the South China Sea.
Canadian School Textbook Lists Israeli Children as ‘Spies’ and ‘Soldiers’
Israel has been listed in a Canadian school textbook as a country that recruits children as “spies and soldiers”, placing the Jewish State alongside Afghanistan, Colombia, Iraq, Libya, and Yemen as a human rights violator.
Pakistani Textbooks Teach Children That Christians Are ‘Nefarious, Violent, and Tyrannical by Nature’
A new study on textbooks used in Pakistan’s public schools found “deeply troubling content” in the representation of Christians and other minority religions as fundamentally inferior and less trustworthy than Muslims. The comprehensive report, Teaching Intolerance in Pakistan: Religious Bias
Berkeley Astronomer Looks for ET, Discovers Burglars
Late at night on February 18, a UC Berkeley astronomy research scientist looking for extraterrestrial life finished his work only to find two burglars walking through the new $80 million Campbell Hall at the Berkeley SETI Research Center.
Shallow Pre-College Reading Assignments Pave Way for Social Justice Agenda
More than 350 colleges assigned a book to their freshmen last summer. That is, each college picked one book as a common reading.
Fighting Islamicization and Antisemitism in America
A new form of antisemitism is taking place in America’s public schools via textbooks, activists say. They are spearheading a nationwide movement to thwart the Islamic indoctrination of America’s youth.
