"Minority representation in textbooks"

Following a presentation to the California State Board of Education by a task force appointed to reevaluate social science textbooks, reporter Stan Chambers interviews Wilson Riles, California State Superintendent of Public Instruction. They discuss reactions to the presentation and the level of revisions needed to bring text into compliance with state guidelines regarding representation of ethnic minorities. Riles expects the State Board will decide on the suitability of texts in January. In footage of the presentation, task force member Dr. George D. Roberts, professor at the University of California, Irvine, speaks at the podium regarding significant problems with current textbooks including factual errors, ethnocentrism and insensitivity to people of various ethnic groups. Note some segments of meeting footage lack sound.

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