Posted on March 1, 2010.
Problems with the U.S. in their religious instruction manuals, report on a study conducted by Peter Menkin In a reliable and even remarkable study, the Institute for Jewish and Community Research, located in San Francisco, has published a book on religion in American textbooks. These manuals, used in U.S. schools, causing many errors of religion is surprising-and even glaring errors.
The book is entitled "The problem of textbooks: distorting history and religion", published by Lexington Books, a division of Rowman and Littlefield Publishers. http://www.lexingtonbooks.com/Catalog/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&db = ^ DB / CATALOG.db eqSKUdata = 0739130935 & effort five years by the late scholar Gary Tobin, Ph.D. (former President of the Institute), and Dennis Ybarra, MBA, has been discussed both by email and webcam. Part One: The interview starts Dennis Ybarra said by e-mail: How many books are being considered? I have a copy of the executive summary is on your site www.TroublewithTextbooks.org : I reviewed 28 books. Until now, I refused to separate the 28 sub-assemblies to make or, failing all because the content of each is so "all over the map." This means that in four areas, we analyzed: Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and Israel, many are very good in one area and terrible in another. Why do you say some are "... good in one area and terrible in another? "This is because articles in these areas can be yours, while others are serious. Part Two: What is Jewish and the scientific community says about them themselves, an introduction The introduction to the synthesis of boldly notes for the book: "The Trouble with manual alarm bells about how textbooks denigrate certain groups and teach the historical distortions. Our schools are supposed to teach young people about American values and provide students with the knowledge necessary for good citizenship. In Instead, the textbooks are filled with errors and misrepresentations. " The research was conducted under funding by and under the auspices of the Institute for Jewish and research, including the three components are fine as "... an independent think tank dedicated to creating a safe, secure and growing Jewish community. We provide research to the Jewish community and society in general, use our information to design and develop innovative initiatives, and educate the general public and opinion leaders. " They explain: (1) "The Institute conducts research survey on religious prejudices." (2) "The Institute is engaged in research on American philanthropy megagifts, giving to higher education, and philosophy of giving. We also specialize in research on Jewish philanthropy, including foundations and motivations for giving to Jewish causes. " (3) "We study the demography of the Jewish people, looking at how Jewish identity is defined and expressed. We examine issues related to intermarriage, conversion and racial and ethnic diversity of the Jewish people. " Regarding their study of textbooks, the executive summary explains that people of religious faith are obvious errors, once they look at the books. The Institute of Dennis Ybarra urges parents to read books of their child, and wrote the summary is readable and useful to school boards in San Francisco Bay Area, and the United States.
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