McGraw-Hill Education has taken the unusual step of withdrawing a textbook and planning to destroy all copies of it — following criticism that four maps in the book are inaccurate and anti-Israel.

The book is a political science textbook, Global Politics: Engaging a Complex World. The McGraw-Hill Education website no longer features the book. But a page on Amazon describes the book this way: “This contemporary presentation stresses the importance of global events and offers students a number of lenses through which to view the world around them.”

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Vanita Gupta, head of the civil rights division, Justice Department, assured in a talk in New Jersey, on Tuesday, the United States would continue vigorous enforcement measures against religious discrimination and bullying in schools, especially against Muslims and people of Arab or South Asian descent and people perceived to be members of these groups.

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Many school pupils feel frustrated and bored during the hours they have to hunch over their books feverishly memorising formulas that seem irrelevant to their lives – and most likely will be quickly forgotten once their final exams are over.

Research indicates that although standardised tests may adequately measure a student’s knowledge, they are a poor yardstick when it comes to highlighting other aspects and abilities – such as collaboration, character, teamwork and leadership skills – that are arguably more important when wanting to achieve success in the real world.

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Drexel University’s College of Medicine announced Wednesday that it will overhaul the curriculum for its MD program in order to better prepare physicians for the reality of rapidly evolving heath care environments.

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From Diverse: Issues in Higher Education: “We can all agree that building a more diverse corps of teachers is important. While only a few studies have examined the role of teacher diversity in student achievement, there’s some evidence that students may learn more when taught by a teacher of their same race and that, on average, Black teachers hold higher expectations for Black students. But just recently we learned the troubling findings from a Shanker Institute report that the number of Black teachers working in some of our largest school districts is on the decline.”

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From The Columbia Daily Herald: “The Higher Education Subcommittee, which I chair, met this week to discuss several important matters affecting our state’s colleges and universities. This includes the structure of Tennessee’s higher education governance system, the scope and amount of public money spent on diversity programs, and campus safety.”

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From Times Higher Education: “Before opening the Reinventing Higher Education conference hosted by IE University in Madrid yesterday, Simon Manley had been at a UK university recruitment fair somewhere else in the city.”

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From Columbia Student News: “Higher education needs more diverse leaders, to help as many students from as many different backgrounds as possible achieve their goals. Sarah Dahl reports on Tuesday evening’s panel on diversity in higher education, which discussed this need from a variety of perspectives.”

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From Hays Post: “Fort Hays State University’s Cuban immigrant president took her personal message of diversity to the Michael Tilford Conference on Diversity and Multiculturalism at Pittsburg State University Monday night.”

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From Times Higher Education: “Brown University dean on gender mix in senior university management.”

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