Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A mother who called out a caption in her son’s World Geography textbook has started a social media firestorm — and has convinced ...

It took a Pearland mother and her 15-year-old son to notice that a world geography textbook used in many Houston-area school systems described slaves as "workers," providing an interpretation of ...

AUSTIN (Texas) — One of the biggest publishers in the US apologised yesterday (Oct 5) for calling slaves brought to America “workers” in a geography textbook used widely in Texas, where the wording ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — One of the biggest publishers in the U.S. apologized Monday for calling slaves brought to America “workers” in a geography textbook used widely in Texas, where the wording went ...

One of the nation's largest textbook publishers said it would replace the world geography textbooks of any school in the country after the mother of a Pearland High School freshman took to social ...