Textbook Bias Is a Real Problem

Skim through the voting section of McGraw Hill’s civics textbook, and you’ll see images from Hillary Clinton’s and Elizabeth Warren’s campaigns (whilst any campaign photos of a certain recent victor who won the popular election are notably absent). Grab the same publisher’s World History textbook, and you’ll read that the First Intifada was a “mostly unarmed uprising against Israeli occupation,” conveniently omitting discussion of the 200 murdered Jews. A small oversight, some might say.

Despite conservative efforts to remove DEI, CRT, and other suspect ideologies from classrooms, progressivism remains entrenched in the institutions of American education, including schools of education, accreditors and authorizers, school boards, curricula, unions (duh), publications and conferences, and professional organizations.

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Daniel Buck

Daniel Buck is a research fellow and the director of the Conservative Education Reform Network at the American Enterprise Institute.

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Anna Low

Anna Low is the program manager at the Conservative Education Reform Network.

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Skim through the voting section of McGraw Hill’s civics textbook, and you’ll see images from Hillary Clinton’s and Elizabeth Warren’s campaigns (whilst any campaign photos of a certain recent victor who won the popular election are notably absent). Grab the same publisher’s World History textbook, and you’ll read that the First Intifada was a “mostly unarmed uprising against Israeli occupation,” conveniently omitting discussion of the 200 murdered Jews. A small oversight, some might say.

Despite conservative efforts to remove DEI, CRT, and other suspect ideologies from classrooms, progressivism remains entrenched in the institutions of American education, including schools of education, accreditors and authorizers, school boards, curricula, unions (duh), publications and conferences, and professional organizations.