Tag: textbooks
United States: in Texas, school textbooks in the crosshairs of climate skeptics
Like OPEC and the director general of COP28, Majid al-Suwaidi, in Texas, the largest energy producer in the United States, accusing fossil energy of being a cause of the climate…
With the war in Ukraine, Russia is making its textbooks more “patriotic”
New textbooks should come into force in Russia for secondary school students from September 1, 2023. Textbooks rewritten in just five months, and giving pride of place to the military…
A Deezer of textbooks? The bet of Valérie Pécresse which irritates Hachette
The administrative court of Montreuil (Seine-Saint-Denis) rejected, Monday, June 26, the request for interim relief filed by Hachette, opposing a call for tenders launched by the Ile-de-France region. This concerns…
In India, Darwin erased from school textbooks
Whole swaths of the Muslim heritage erased, fundamental scientific concepts forgotten, the embarrassing past of Hindu nationalists watered down… planes operated in secondary school textbooks. Officially, this is to lighten…
The Al bot reveals widespread exam cheating – suspicious cases in several textbooks
Nearly half of the largest universities and colleges have discovered suspected exam cheating with new AI bots, according to a survey conducted by TV4 Nyheterna. The vast majority believe that…
Iran, Russia, the Gulf… How authoritarian states exploit textbooks
From Tehran, these images have gone around the world: teenage girls who, within their own establishment, tear up their textbooks, trample them and then burn them. Their gesture, of incredible…
removal of Turkish textbooks with illustrations of the Prophet Muhammad
Syrian authorities, in an area under Turkish control, have decided to withdraw religious textbooks with illustrations depicting the Prophet Muhammad. Residents of the town of Jarablos, near the Turkish border,…