A good story that showcases how much one person (high school senior Matthew LaClair of New Jersey) can do to publicize the poor quality/propaganda elements of high school textbooks. The article does a good job of outlining the basic story. LaClair (who previously recorded his history teacher including unconstitutional religious messages in classroom content) noticed religious-right propaganda in his American Government textbook and prepared a 25 page report on same. The Center for Inquiry (who published this article), enlisted experts to verify LaClair's claims and subsequently the AP picked up the story and the controversy continues in the press with one author attempting to justify/explain his prose and the conversation is ... More »

Shows the blatant disregard for the truth by Right-Wing propagandists.