A Very Defiant Duckling Named Ender spotted This Guardian Unlimited Article that says Schoolchildren are getting rewritten histories of Europe that are politically correct but cut out the awkward facts.
Children are being taught a sanitised version of European history in which Napoleon is depicted as primarily a reformer and the Vikings are portrayed as peace-loving traders, according to new research.
The move is part of a new drive towards political correctness in which national identity, as well as controversy and conflict, have been wiped from secondary school textbooks, the study claims.
A somewhat related story At ABCnews.com on new text books now under development in Washington for Iraqi schools.
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