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>> this has become a big political issue and it was something that i fought routinely on the texas state board of education. we were dealing with similar issues in texas and still are now through textbook process called c-skip. i think the problem is a lot of parents threu some kind of viewpoint neutral pool from which textbooks are selected and they can take all bias out of the process. simply not the reality. the reality is someone is going to have to be making these decisions and a lot of times it is an elected board. there is an advocacy for there to be appointed experts in terms of like a...

Textbook content. >> the teachers know nothing about islam. the prentice hall book fails to mention that the terrorists of 9/11 were muslim radicals. in almost all textbooks terrorism is not identified as islamic. >> what does it call them? >> terrorists, period. makes it hard to understand what their motives were in a cowardly way of being deferential to the council on islamic education, which houghton mifflin uses as consultant. the editors removed jihad and shurea from high school books. >> we were known for the last 19 years as council on islamic education. two years ago we changed the nam...