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...ger telling them what the white men made everyone believe for so long. For example, they are now teaching the truth about Christopher Columbus, that he was not the first to discover America. Sandra Stotsky, a researcher at Harvard University, reviewed teaching materials being used in the Brookline, Massachusetts, high school and concluded that there was a theme running through the course outline “the systematic denigration of America’s Western heritage.” Almost everything emphasized the negative aspect of everything. “Children learn about racism as an American and European phenomenon but they are not taught about racism in Islamic and African history. The National History standard’s were developed at the University of California at Los Angeles and released in 1994. Two volumes were released which were on for U.S. history and one for world history. The U.S. history left out many things that should be considered relevant to teach or to be learned. For example Lames Madison, Alexander Graham B...