N.C. textbooks to be subject of panel discussion
CHAPEL HILL (AP) — The current state and future of North Carolina textbooks will be the subject of a panel discussion at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The discussion will be held Thursday at Wilson Library, which has an exhibit about textbooks of the past in North Carolina. UNC School of Education Dean Bill McDiarmid will moderate the discussion. Panelists include a co-chair of the North Carolina Textbook Commission and the deputy chief academic officer for the state Department of Public Instruction.
Topics will include the role of state textbook commissions and the implications of digital textbooks.
The library exhibit is titled "Curriculum and Controversy: Two Centuries of Textbooks in North Carolina." Books that supported slavery, biology texts that were banned and the first Dick-and-Jane books with black characters are displayed.
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