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ERIC Number: EJ644025
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2000
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ISSN: ISSN-0037-7724
Lookout Point: The Character of their Content.
Levy, Tedd
Social Education, v64 n5 pm2 Sep 2000
States that the content of history and social studies textbooks is inadequate and low quality. Focuses on the controversy over textbook content addressing the issues of an overemphasis on multiculturalism and the political use of history. Contends that it is imperative that U.S. citizens know the best and worst of their history. (CMK)
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Educational History, Elementary Secondary Education, Multicultural Education, Political Issues, Public Education, Social Studies, Textbook Content, Textbooks, United States History
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
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Language: English
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Note: Part of the supplement "Middle Level Learning" for this issue of Social Education.