Talk:Bias in curricula

Political Bias
Is there any information out there on POLITICAL bias in schools? I know in the U.S. it's over 6 in 7 college professors and 8.5 in 10 high school teachers all belonging to the Democratic party as an example... and in some fields those numbers approach 100%... I hear about the issue from time to time on conservative radio shows (not what I'd call fair and unbiased sources) and occasionally in the newspaper (what I WOULD consider fair enough and unbiased enough to listen to). Any sources out there discussing it? If it exists? If two students wrote papers, one promoting self determination and one promoting socialism, but 90% of the teachers were socialists... since grading papers is often to some extent a judgement call it would seem the roots of educational bias exist. However if their's no study or solid information on it, it clearly does not belong on wikipedia w/o a good reference. Also wasn't there a professor in S.E. Asia recently who was put on charges for speaking against the king because he put questions on his university test that were rigged so the only answers the students could give were anti-monarchy? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.132.183.131 (talk) 14:33, August 20, 2007 (UTC)

Bias
This article is discussing bias in education, but is biased within itself. It portrays the right and religion as the ones perpetrating the bias, when it is typically more the doing of the left. For example when discussing Moses it says in one book that he claimed the Ten Commandments were of God, but says of the Quran that it WAS the word of God. That is only a minor bias, but they also have tried to remove Jefferson and the Liberty Bell from an American History book. They also portray Global Warming as absolute fact, though there is a letter with 31000 signatures of scientists disputing it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.117.182.182 (talk) 00:01, 25 June 2011 (UTC)

You do have a good point. The article probably could use a little cleaning up. --69.128.204.110 (talk) 02:32, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

The irony of this article is that it's very biased itself...
It's quite a peculiar thing to see when an article on the biased in education teaches people that the cause comes from the religious and the right. It's also quite a trip when the article invokes a self-professed communist like Howard Zinn as its example of proof. It's a bit like using Hitler as a source on why the banking world favors Jewish people. You just know he will give an unpolluted analysis. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.135.167.146 (talk) 16:12, 13 February 2016 (UTC)

Description of Zinn and Loewen as "Communists"
Need sources to identify Zinn and Loewen as "Communists". Describing them as such is NPOV, unverified, and, in the case of Loewen (Zinn is deceased), potentially libelous. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jhowar59 (talk • contribs) 16:34, 14 May 2016 (UTC) Jhowar59 (talk) 16:40, 14 May 2016 (UTC)

Cleanup tags added
I agree that this article has neutrality problems, as well as lack of sources to back up words such as "many", "greatly", and "extreme". Also the article currently covers only the United States, Middle East, India, and Pakistan. Unfortunately I am unable to work on these issues at this time. -- momo  ricks  19:49, 28 July 2016 (UTC)

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List of useful references

 * https://theconversation.com/hagia-sophia-controversy-goes-beyond-muslim-christian-tensions-to-treatment-of-paganism-142966
 * https://www.courthousenews.com/ninth-circuit-tosses-claims-of-anti-hindu-bias-in-california-schools/
 * https://www.sundayguardianlive.com/world/uscirf-india-prejudice-hate-time-coronavirus

Bookku (talk) 13:54, 21 September 2020 (UTC)


 * James Moore (2022) Assaults on Freedom of Speech: Why Social Studies Must Defend the First Amendment, The Social Studies, 113:1, 30-49, DOI: 10.1080/00377996.2021.1949258


 * https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/12/egyptian-parliament-reopens-debate-qurans-place-curriculum

&#32;Bookku, &#39;Encyclopedias &#61; expanding information &#38; knowledge&#39; (talk) 15:47, 30 January 2022 (UTC)

Title
Greetings,

I do agree your recent comment in article edit summary that practically objective of article is very much "Bias in curricula" but then why not change article title to "Bias in curricula" it self, I would support article title change to "Bias in curricula".

Thanks and warm regards

Bookku (talk) 18:06, 10 March 2021 (UTC)
 * You did not add a header. But going ahead. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 18:12, 10 March 2021 (UTC)

Requested move 10 March 2021

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The result of the move request was: Moved  (t &#183; c)  buidhe  21:28, 17 March 2021 (UTC)

Bias in education → Bias in curricula – The title of this article does not accurately reflect the subject matter, which focuses only on curricula. I recently removed a large section that was about racial bias in a school policy. –LaundryPizza03 ( d c̄ ) 18:15, 10 March 2021 (UTC)


 * Support: I have been content contributing to couple of textbook controversies related articles since long and as a summary article title Bias in curricula suits better. No doubt Bias in education is wider scope title but having a draft page for it as of now will be a better thing and renaming present page to Bias in curricula will be more pragmatic IMHO. Thanks and regards to all. Bookku (talk) 14:16, 11 March 2021 (UTC)
 * I might invite five of active substantial content contributors to this and five from related articles . Making mention to avoid any likelihood of misunderstandings. Thanks Bookku (talk) 14:23, 11 March 2021 (UTC)

Israel-Palestine
No source is provided. A Google search brings up an opinion article published by Professor Brown about a German report making far more nuanced claims mainly arguing a lack of connection between textbook incitement and actual violence. The quoted paragraph below appears to be the personal interpretation of an expert opinion about a third party report. “An independent study of Palestinian textbooks by Professor Nathan Brown of George Washington University in Washington, DC, found that Palestine National Authority-authored books avoid treating anything controversial regarding Palestinian national identity, and while highly nationalistic, do not incite hatred, violence and anti-Semitism.”

Despite a plethora of objective publications on the matter, the contributors have chosen to quote opinions and then ignore counter opinions and criticisms of scholarship, such as those appearing in the wiki article about the professor who claimed incitement in Israeli textbooks because they portrayed Arab refugees rather than successful Arabs. 2A00:A040:19C:92CC:19A3:5E65:2852:D4B8 (talk) 11:23, 11 May 2022 (UTC)

Refs

 * https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2023/01/03/debates-whether-academic-freedom-includes-images-offensive-muslims

&#32;Bookku   (talk) 08:23, 10 January 2023 (UTC)