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a book used for instruction in a subject
one shelf in my bookcase is crammed full of my old college textbooks
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She was inspired by a character of the same name, a schoolgirl with pigtails, who appeared on the covers of Korean textbooks in the ’70s and ’80s.
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Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
For example, Native students attending local public schools in Chicago at the turn of the century encountered stereotypical and racist depictions of Indigenous people in their textbooks and curricula.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
In response, in the 1920s, during a wave of Indigenous intellectual organizing, the Indian Council Fire (ICF) in Chicago called for better representation of Native people in school textbooks.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Fifty years later, in 1971, the Chicago Tribune documented how Menominee mother and activist Carol Warrington was jailed after pulling her children out of school in protest of the inaccurate and harmful depictions of Native people in their school textbooks.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Family stories lie on the edge of history, just beyond the textbooks and official accounts in a realm where the past is always present.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Russia needs soldiers, IT specialists, workers for its military-industrial complex, and an obedient rising generation that has been indoctrinated in the revanchist and simplified history propagated in the new textbooks.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
Like the original show, producers for the spinoff say the questions were pulled directly from elementary curriculum textbooks.
—Tim Chan, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Because of advances in the field — more research into events, ideas and people that did not make it into school textbooks — Harrigan can share some of the darker chapters from our past with a clear eye.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Oct. 2024
Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
For example, Native students attending local public schools in Chicago at the turn of the century encountered stereotypical and racist depictions of Indigenous people in their textbooks and curricula.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
In response, in the 1920s, during a wave of Indigenous intellectual organizing, the Indian Council Fire (ICF) in Chicago called for better representation of Native people in school textbooks.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Fifty years later, in 1971, the Chicago Tribune documented how Menominee mother and activist Carol Warrington was jailed after pulling her children out of school in protest of the inaccurate and harmful depictions of Native people in their school textbooks.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Family stories lie on the edge of history, just beyond the textbooks and official accounts in a realm where the past is always present.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Russia needs soldiers, IT specialists, workers for its military-industrial complex, and an obedient rising generation that has been indoctrinated in the revanchist and simplified history propagated in the new textbooks.
—Andrei Kolesnikov, Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2024
Like the original show, producers for the spinoff say the questions were pulled directly from elementary curriculum textbooks.
—Tim Chan, Variety, 15 Oct. 2024
Because of advances in the field — more research into events, ideas and people that did not make it into school textbooks — Harrigan can share some of the darker chapters from our past with a clear eye.
—Michael Barnes, Austin American-Statesman, 15 Oct. 2024
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“Textbooks.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/textbooks. Accessed 22 Dec. 2024.
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