"Teaching About The Wars": New Curriculum from Rethinking Schools
By Felicia Gustin
Source: War Times
Thursday, April 04, 2013
What inspired this collection? Sokolower says that as the wars in the Middle East ground on, she noticed a deafening silence.
Teachers who wouldn't dream of ignoring the Underground Railroad or the Spanish American War weren't teaching their students about the roots of the U.S. wars against Iraq or the current use of drones in Pakistan and Yemen, she said. It's almost as if we have accepted endless war as inevitable, as part of the wallpaper.
Teaching About The Wars also counters the ways textbooks are addressing the U.S. War in Iraq. Bill Bigelow, Rethinking Schools Curriculum Editor, authored the article, Ten Years After: How Not to Teach About the Iraq War, that examined one of the textbooks commonly used in school districts around the country, Holt McDougals Modern World History.
The section in Modern World History on the U.S. war with Iraq might as well have been written by Pentagon propagandists, Bigelow writes.
In an imitation of Fox News, the very first sentence of the Iraq war section places the 9/11 attacks and Saddam Hussein side by side. The book presents the march to invasion as reasonable and inevitable
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