10 Please, before you quit, buy at least one book from the club!

11 Polite would be nice, though.

INTRODUCTION: SOMETHING HAS GONE VERY

WRONG

1 Billings, whose real name was Henry Wheeler Shaw, coined this phrase
probably between 1850 and 1885.

2 James Baldwin, “A Talk to Teachers,” Saturday Review, 12/21/1963,
reprinted in Rick Simonson and Scott Walker, eds., Multi-cultural Literacy
(St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 1988), 11.

3 Gen. Petro G. Grigorenko, quoted in Robert Slusser, “History and the
Democratic Opposition,” in Rudolf L. Tökés, ed., Dissent in the USSR
(Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1975), 329- 53.

4 I use the term history as encompassing social studies, as do most researchers
and students. When the distinction is important, I will make it. Robert
Reinhold, Harris poll, reported in New York Times, 7/3/1971, and quoted in
Herbert Aptheker, The Unfolding Drama (New York: International, 1978),
146; Terry Borton, The Weekly Reader National Survey on Education
(Middletown, CT: Field Publications, 1985), 14, 16; Mark Schug, Robert
Todd, and R. Beery, “Why Kids Don’t Like Social Studies,” Social Education
48 (May 1984): 382-87; Albert Shanker, “The ‘Efficient’ Diploma Mill,” paid
column in New York Times, 2/14/1988; Joan M. Shaughnessy and Thomas M.
Haladyna, “Research on Student Attitudes Toward Social Studies,” Social
Education 49 (November 1985): 692-95. National grade averages in 1992
ACT Assessment Results, Summary Report, Mississippi (Iowa City: ACT,
1993), 7.

5 Diane Ravitch and Chester E. Finn Jr., What Do Our 17-Year-Olds Know?
(New York: Harper and Row, 1987); National Geographic Society,
Geography: An International Gallup Survey (Washington, D.C.: National
Geographic Society, 1988). Since the first edition of Lies My Teacher Told
Me, these studies continue to come out. Recent examples include Elizabeth
McPike, Education for Democracy (Washington, D.C.: Albert Shanker