SEOUL, April 4 (Korea Bizwire) — Inspired by Korean American students’ efforts, one of the major American education publishers McGraw-Hill says it will consider adding more Korean culture and history to social studies textbooks used in in both primary and secondary education. In a letter from McGraw-Hill released by U.S.-based Korean interest group Echo-Korea, the publisher [...]
WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Korea Bizwire) — The United States strongly supports academic freedom, the State Department said Sunday, as history scholars criticize Japan for pressuring an American textbook publisher to change the description of Tokyo’s sexual enslavement of Asian women during World War II. A group of American history scholars have issued a protest statement denouncing Japan’s [...]
“Recently, representatives from the Japanese government and others have reached out to McGraw-Hill Education asking the company to change the description of ‘comfort women’ in one of our publications.” “Scholars are aligned behind the historical fact of ‘comfort women’ and we unequivocally stand behind the writing, research and presentation of our authors” – [...]