Journalists and politicians delight in telling us what is wrong with public education, when in fact they know very little about it. A case in point is Jonah Goldberg?s Wednesday column, a denunciation of historians? use of “left-wing” textbooks. I agree that left-wing historians can be boring, but I disagree when he suggests that history teachers use left-wing textbooks.
? Norman K. Risjord, history professor emeritus, UW-Madison