Leading textbook publishers Scholastic and Pearson have distanced themselves from a push to replace biological sex with gender identity in K-12 classroom discussions after the conservative Heritage Foundation publicized their materials.
In this Feb. 18, 2016 photo, textbooks are seen stacked on a table at Illinois Valley Community College in Oglesby, Ill. In 2007, the school began the Textbook Rental Option Program to alleviate some of the burden of high textbook …and Pearson have distanced themselves from a push to replace biological sex with gender identity in K-12 classroom discussions after the conservative Heritage Foundation publicized their materials.
However, Pearson’s website continue to advertise a sociology book that Mr. Butcher said promotes “the use of gender identity over biological sex to describe individuals” in student-teacher conversations. “The pushback on these ideas is strong and the publishers don’t know how to defend them when reporters, policy analysts or parents question what they are doing,” Mr. Butcher said. “Why would you show something to teachers and parents if you didn’t expect it to reach students?”Reading With Pride Resource Guide includes as sources the left-leaning Southern Poverty Law Center and the Trevor Project, an LGBT suicide hotline.
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