03-12-2007, 09:49 PM
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<b>Bowing to Sikhsâ Call, California Wants Textbook</b> Change By JESSE McKINLEY Published: March 10, 2007
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/0.../10textbook.jpg âThe image itself was offensive to the Sikh community,â said Thomas Adams, director of the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division of the State Education Department. âAnd it wasnât defensible on the issue of accuracy, because it is from a later periodâ than the one in which Guru Nanak lived...
The bookâs publisher, Oxford University Press, did not return a call for comment. But education officials and other publishing houses said the episode was just the latest example of a textbook change prompted by concerns about giving offense to various racial, ethnic or religious groups.
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<b>Bowing to Sikhsâ Call, California Wants Textbook</b> Change By JESSE McKINLEY Published: March 10, 2007
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2007/0.../10textbook.jpg âThe image itself was offensive to the Sikh community,â said Thomas Adams, director of the Curriculum Frameworks and Instructional Resources Division of the State Education Department. âAnd it wasnât defensible on the issue of accuracy, because it is from a later periodâ than the one in which Guru Nanak lived...
The bookâs publisher, Oxford University Press, did not return a call for comment. But education officials and other publishing houses said the episode was just the latest example of a textbook change prompted by concerns about giving offense to various racial, ethnic or religious groups.
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