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Parker, Franklin – 1987
Organization and financing have enabled the religious right to bring their textbook censorship campaign into the U.S. federal court system. Denouncing secular humanism, these groups have initiated steps to obtain federal funding for private religious schools. Over the last 100 years public school textbooks have been revised to reflect various…
Descriptors: Academic Freedom, Censorship, Freedom of Information, Moral Issues