What is taught in school in the U.S. is pretty sanitized. The justification for editing history books here in the states is to make historical subjects that are unlikely to anger parents, and are more easily understood by students. It is something often debated on local levels, but not so much on a national one.
Usually people tend not to push for more accurate curriculum, because they believe students that are interested in the subject will likely take courses in history if they attend a university. But some of these texts read like patriotic propaganda.
Hopefully it is not as bad as the Japanese history textbook controversy from a year or two ago. That was a little scary.
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Date: 2009-01-16 06:20 pm (UTC)What is taught in school in the U.S. is pretty sanitized. The justification for editing history books here in the states is to make historical subjects that are unlikely to anger parents, and are more easily understood by students. It is something often debated on local levels, but not so much on a national one.
Usually people tend not to push for more accurate curriculum, because they believe students that are interested in the subject will likely take courses in history if they attend a university. But some of these texts read like patriotic propaganda.
Hopefully it is not as bad as the Japanese history textbook controversy from a year or two ago. That was a little scary.