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side Higher Ed  <a href="https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/03/08/mcgraw-hill-education-withdraws-textbook-maps-viewed-anti-israel">reports</a>

that the educational publishing company McGraw-Hill is withdrawing and

destroying all copies of a textbook after complaints that it contained

maps that were anti-Israel.The book, Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World,

had a series of maps that documented the Palestinian loss of land that

occurred between 1946 and 2000. A number of Israel supporters criticized

the maps, insisting that they're based on anti-Israel propaganda, as in

this <a href="http://www.thetower.org/3027ez-mcgraw-hill-publishes-college-textbook-with-mendacious-anti-israel-maps/">blog post.</a>

The post claims that all land given up by Israel has been given in the

"pursuit of peace."[Israel] has offered a great deal more for peace with

the Palestinians," reads the post, "The book could have gone into why

they continuously reject these peace offers…but it chose not to. The

textbook authors have taken a false narrative and are teaching it to

students across the nation."Insider Higher Ed ran a

statement from Catherine Mathis, a spokeswoman for McGraw-Hill

Education. "As soon as we learned about the concerns with it, we placed

sales of the book on hold and immediately initiated an academic review,"

said Mathis, "The review determined that the map did not meet our

academic standards. We have informed the authors and we are no longer

selling the book. All existing inventory will be destroyed. We apologize

and will refund payment to anyone who returns the book."<a href="http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/mcgraw-hill-destroys-textbook-after-complaints-maps-are-anti-israel"> http://www.alternet.org/grayzone-project/mcgraw-hill-destroys-textbook-after-complaints-maps-are-anti-israel</a>

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</div><div></div><div>New research from Southern Methodist University (SMU) found that some children's textbooks that depict the reality of human-caused climate change with uncertainty are influenced by a climate science knowledge gap that finds its roots partly in conservative media misinformation.In a language analysis of four major California science textbooks, the SMU researchers found that the books delivered a message "that climate change is possibly happening, that humans may or may not be causing it, and that we do not need to take immediate mitigating action."The study <a href="http://blog.smu.edu/research/2015/11/09/california-6th-grade-science-books-climate-change-a-matter-of-opinion-not-scientific-fact/" style="outline: medium none; font-weight: bold ! important; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">concluded</a> that the four 6th grade textbooks -- including books from major national publishing companies <a href="http://www.mheducation.com/" style="outline: medium none; font-weight: bold ! important; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">McGraw-Hill Education</a> and <a href="https://www.pearson.com/" style="outline: medium none; font-weight: bold ! important; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">Pearson</a> -- used language and writing techniques that "more closely match the public discourse of doubt about climate change rather than the scientific discourse" one might expect from academic texts. The books used language that misleadingly amplified uncertainty about the causes of climate change, undermined the expertise of climate scientists, and implied a <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2014/may/23/john-oliver-best-climate-debate-ever" style="outline: medium none; font-weight: bold ! important; text-decoration: none; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);">false</a> balance narrative around the realities of climate change within the scientific community.</div><div></div>