Lies My Teacher Told Me

8 Quoted in Bessie L. Pierce, Public Opinion and the Teaching of History in the United States (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1926), ...

Public Education,” Daedalus 110, no. 2 (Summer 1981): 1, 12. 21 Henry M. Levin, “Educational Reform: Its Meaning?” in Martin Car ...

In the first edition of Lies, I pointed out that voting is the one form of citizenship that the textbooks pushed, yet voting in ...

Altbach et al., eds., Textbooks in American Society (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1991), 94-97; interviews with p ...

42 Genocide may be too harsh a term. The Spanish, who profited from Indian labor on Haiti, didn’t want to wipe out the Arawaks. ...

51 M. P., “Texas Schoolbook Massacre: 5200 Errors Found in 10 History Books,” Publishers Weekly, 3/2/1992, 11. Not all 5,200 wer ...

The American Schoolbook, 39; Sewall, “Social Studies Textbooks: A View from the Publishers,” 14; and Matthew Downey, “Speaking o ...

65 See Vaughn, ed., The Vital Past, 46, 241. 66 Carol Berkin, interview, 10/1987. 67 Edward Pessen, The Log Cabin Myth (New Have ...

is understandable that teachers want to manage their situations. 76 Albert Shanker, “The Efficient Diploma Mill,” advertisement ...

Profession,” Social Education , no. 58 (4/1986): 253. 83 Joan M. Shaughnessy and Thomas M. Haladyna, “Research on Student Attitu ...

92 Kidder, Among Schoolchildren, 52; Kirst, Who Controls Our Schools? 135; Linda Levstik, “The Research Base for Curriculum Choi ...

101 Mark Lloyd, interview, 1991. 102 Yankelovich, Skelly, and White, reported in “A ‘New Breed’ Emerges,” Family Weekly, 1/1/197 ...

CHAPTER 13: WHAT IS THE RESULT OF TEACHING HISTORY LIKE THIS? 1 Scopes trial transcript, excerpt at “Day 7” at law.umkc.edu/facu ...

argues that “affect—either positive or negative—was virtually absent” from the classrooms he and his associates studied. Flat is ...

1980s to say that the Vietnam War was wrong, considering that the United States fought it and Presidents Reagan and Bush still d ...

25 Richard Sennett and Jonathan Cobb, Hidden Injuries of Class (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1972). 26 See Erich Fromm, Escape fro ...

Kirby and Nancy B. Julian, “Treatment of Women in High School U.S. History Textbooks,” Social Studies 72 (9/1981): 203-7; a spec ...

the Past (New York: Heinemann, 1998) and Divided We Stand (New York: Heinemann, 2001). Some of his scores of suggestions won’t w ...

of America, The American Adventure (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1975), provide the greatest contrast to the usual narrative textboo ...

Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20560) and available at no cost to high school teachers, often treats pre-Columbian Na ...