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Many nonfiction books for young readers are primarily intended to teach reading comprehension, phonics, or how to use text elements like infographics. The editorial process for these will primarily focus on things like reading level, Lexile measures, vocabulary lists, and the like; factual accuracy may be considered of secondary importance.
A recent study of student evaluations of teaching (SET) from a large public university in Sydney focused on gender and cultural bias. [10] The dataset of more than 523,000 individual student surveys across 5 different faculties spanned a seven year period 2010-2016. There were 2,392 unique courses and 3,123 individual teachers in the dataset.
This is where non-fiction like Sapiens, which thinks critically and gives context about our world, emerged as forerunners to help us fill in the blanks. These books counteract that ...
Hate Inc.: Why Today's Media Makes Us Despise One Another is a 2019 non-fiction book by Matt Taibbi.It was first self-published by Taibbi online in serial form and later published by OR Books on October 8, 2019, in both hardcover and paperback as well as e-book format.
Here are their best bets for young adult, middle grade and picture books for 2023. Coming next week: CADL's best bets for adult fiction and nonfiction. Young Adult
In Lies My Teacher Told Me, Loewen criticizes modern American high school history textbooks for containing incorrect information about people and events such as Christopher Columbus, the lies and inaccuracies in the history books regarding the dealings between the Europeans and the Native Americans, and their often deceptive and inaccurate teachings told about America's commerce in slavery.
Credit - Illustration by Natalie Nelson for TIME; Source Image: Chris Ware—Keystone Features/Hulton Archive/Getty Images. T he best nonfiction books of the year tackle undeniably difficult ...
A number of other books, Ram Sharan Sharma's Ancient India, Satish Chandra's Medieval India, Bipan Chandra's Modern India and Arjun Dev's India and the World were published in 1970's. [7] [6] [8] These texts were intended to be "model" textbooks which were "modern and secular," free of communal bias and prejudice.