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Our Virginia: Past and Present Collection 2010-2013

This collection includes a copy of the 4th grade textbook, Our Virginia: Past and Present by Joy Masoff, and several press releases and articles expressing concern about errors and omissions in the text. It also includes the report submitted to the Virginia Department of Education by the three independent reviewers: Dr. Ronald Heinemann, Retired, Hampden-Sydney College; Dr. Lauranett Lee, Curator of African American History, Virginia Historical Society; and Dr. Brent Tarter, retired, Library of Virginia. In addition, there is a rebuttal to criticism from Dr. Peter Wallenstein, one of the experts charged with revising the first edition of Our Virginia. Dr. Wallenstein published his response the Virginian-Pilot as a guest editorial on 11 October 2011, and discussed criticism of the text and his response in the plenary session of the Virginia Forum on 21 March 2013.
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Our Virginia: Past and Present Collection 2010-2013

Five Ponds Press, Virginia Beach, VA.
This collection includes a copy of the 4th grade textbook, Our Virginia: Past and Present by Joy Masoff, and several press releases and articles expressing concern about errors and omissions in the text. It also includes the report submitted to the Virginia Department of Education by the three independent reviewers: Dr. Ronald Heinemann, Retired, Hampden-Sydney College; Dr. Lauranett Lee, Curator of African American History, Virginia Historical Society; and Dr. Brent Tarter, retired, Library of Virginia. In addition, there is a rebuttal to criticism from Dr. Peter Wallenstein, one of the experts charged with revising the first edition of Our Virginia. Dr. Wallenstein published his response the Virginian-Pilot as a guest editorial on 11 October 2011, and discussed criticism of the text and his response in the plenary session of the Virginia Forum on 21 March 2013.

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