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He who controls the past, controls the future.1  \nBy The Albert Shanker Institute  \nI  \nmagine opening a high school U.S. history textbook and finding no more than a brief mention of Valley Forge, the Missouri Compromise, or the League of Nations. Imagine not finding a word about Benjamin Franklin, Lewis and Clark,  \nSitting Bull, Andrew Carnegie, or Rosa Parks. That is what hashappened to labor’s part in the American story, and to most ofthe men and women who led the labor movement.  \nThe Albert Shanker Institute is committed to fourfundamental principles: vibrant democracy, quality public education, a voice for working people in decisions affecting their jobs and their lives, and free and open debate about all of these issues. This article is drawn from American Labor inU.S. History Textbooks: How Labor’s Story Is Distorted in High School History Textbooks, which the Institute published in 2011. Several experts in labor history contributed to this report: Paul F. Cole, director of the American Labor Studies Center; JeffHilgert, doctoral student in industrial and labor relations at Cornell University; Lori Megivern, Fulbright Fellow andAmerican Councils for International Education Teacher of Excellence; and Jeff Mirel, professor of education and history at the University of Michigan. Christina Bartolomeo, a freelance writer (who has since joined the AFT staff), assisted with researching, writing, and editing.  \nIn the high school history textbooks our children read, too often we find that labor’s role in American history—and labor’s important accomplishments, which changed American life—are misrepresented, downplayed, or ignored. That is a tragedy because labor played (and continues to play) a key role in the development of American democracy and the American way of life. This article, and the more detailed report* from which it is drawn, examines four high school textbooks developed by some of the leading publishers in the country: The American Vision, published by Glencoe/McGraw-Hill in 2010; American Anthem: Modern American History, published by Holt, Rinehart, and Winston/Harcourt in 2009; United States History, published by Prentice Hall/Pearson in 2010; and The Americans, published by McDougal Littell/Houghton Mifflin in 2009.2 Together, these books represent a significant percentage of the purchasing market for high school history textbooks.  \nSpotty, inadequate, and slanted coverage of the labor movement inU.S. history textbooks is a problem that dates back at least to the New Deal era. By the late 1960s, a number of scholars had begun documenting the biased treatment of organized labor in high school curricula. In a 1966 study, Labor in Learning: Public School Treatment of the World of Work, University of California researcher and high school history teacher Will Scoggins found that the history and government textbooks used in most high  \n30  \nAMERicAN EdUcATOR | SUMMER 2012  \n*To read the full report, [go to www.shankerinstitute.org/](go to www.shankerinstitute.org/)[ ](go to www.shankerinstitute.org/)[publications/american-labor-in-textbooks.](publications/american-labor-in-textbooks.)  \nschools either ignored or inadequately treated topics such as collective bargaining, unfair labor practices, company unions, strikes, right-to-work laws, and the role of government in labor dispute mediation and conciliation.3  \nScoggins and other scholars understood that high school textbooks had come to reflect a negative view about unions that was prevalent in the American business community, as well as in politics—often expressed by various business-oriented and ultra-conservative factions of the Republican Party. In a sense, as Scoggins and others found, American history textbooks have taken sides in the nation’s intense political debate about organized labor—and the result has been that ge","cbCaiiULf2ACA8J8","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaiiULf2ACA8J8","pdf",576106,"English","# Labor’s Role Misrepresented in U.S. History Textbooks\n## Principles and Source of the Report\n## Selected Textbooks and Review Method\n## Historical Roots of Biased Coverage\n## Claims and Examples of Distortion","[{\"question\":\"What problem does the report focus on regarding labor in U.S. history textbooks?\",\"answer\":\"It focuses on how labor’s role in American history is misrepresented, downplayed, or ignored in high school history materials.\"},{\"question\":\"Which organization and principles underpin the report?\",\"answer\":\"The report is drawn from work by the Albert Shanker Institute, grounded in commitments to vibrant democracy, quality public education, a voice for working people, and free and open debate.\"},{\"question\":\"How were the textbooks selected and what was reviewed?\",\"answer\":\"The authors selected four leading textbook companies and reviewed the most detailed hard-copy student editions, without assessing teacher editions or supplemental teaching materials.\"}]","Labor’s Untold Story - A Textbook Case of Neglect and Distortion | PDF",1792074523,18]