Sentence examples for textbook debate from inspiring English sources

The ongoing challenges over California's South Asia textbook debate and its implications for how to interpret historical facts in nuanced and contextual ways, demonstrates how difficult it can be to arrive at consensus -- particularly when passionate advocates are driven by deeply held conviction that arises from religious or cultural tradition.

Think of the Texas textbook debates and the efforts to rewrite American history as the story of a Christian state.

Welner told VICE News that the situation draws similarities to textbook debates in Texas and Common Core curriculum debates throughout the country, with specific differences in regard to the local power that district school boards in Colorado.

In the United States Americans are going to have to come to grips with the idea that the educational advances in BRIC nations are surging while our school boards argue over political nuances in textbooks and debate whether Creationism should be taught as a valid alternative to actual science.

Back in college, I had a textbook entitled Decision by Debate.

The State Board of Education approved spending $193 million for new high school biology textbooks, ending months of debate in which religious conservatives protested that the texts did not present alternatives to evolution or adequately discuss what they described as flaws in Darwinian theory.

"The debate over textbooks illustrates how extremely polarized South Korean society has become," said Han Sung-hoon, a research professor at Yonsei University in Seoul.

The interaction between political and professional factors here, as elsewhere, was mediated by a 'heterogenous assemblage of material and symbolic elements' (Pickersgill, 2012: 329) that included clinical textbooks, funding applications, debates around 'practical planning' of health services (Roth et al., 1986: 698), and diagnostic rating scales.

In places like Jeju the debate about how textbooks present history has entered a second phase.

"In the debate over our textbooks, we hear that some parts of history have been cut out.

I'll give students lots of collaborative tasks and make sure every now and then we shut the textbook and have whole-class debates.