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echo: home_schooling
to: DONNA RANSDELL
from: MICHAEL LODICO
date: 1996-05-14 16:46:00
subject: RE: BIASED TEXTBOOKS

On 10 May 96 04:07pm, Donna Ransdell wrote to Glen Todd:
 DR> The majority of textbooks available have a bias of some type. I
 DR> examined a lot of history textbooks over the years as a teacher, and
 DR> then more recently as a prospective homeschooler. Every book I see has
 DR> a bias. It either has a public bias (lots of mention of women in
 DR> history but giving a lot less space to the men in history, or leaving
 DR> out the Red Scare of the 1950s, or leaving out quite a bit else of
 DR> important history), or a religious bias. It would be difficult not to
 DR> have any sort of bias, because we're all humans. It's part of human
 DR> nature.
Donna what have you found to be the least biased History book and
historically accurate?
see ya
Mike
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