Are Schools Complicit in Teaching Anti-Semitism?
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Biography
Dr. Sandra Alfonsi was the Director of National Hadassah’s Curriculum Watch and Chair of the Hadassah Academic Advisory Board for 25 years. She has been a reviewer of K-12 United States History, Social Studies and Global and World History textbooks since the mid-1990s.
Dr. Alfsonsi has been the Senior Academic Fellow for Truth in Textbooks (formerly Truth in Texas Textbooks) since its inception in 2013. She has trained well over 200 social studies textbook reviewers and thru their efforts have reviewed over 100 social studies textbooks that are now being used in a dozen or more states. The work of the volunteers and her efforts combined have identified thousands of errors on a wide range of topics. Because of these efforts states and individual school districts are armed with facts and details to either obtain changes or block books from being purchased at the local and state level.
She is the Founder and Director of Textbook Alert, an independent think tank, whose goal it is to ensure standards of education which are historically accurate as well as ethnically and culturally unbiased. Dr. Alfonsi heads the Textbook Alert Advisory Board, which reviews textbooks for errors and omissions in the areas of Judaism, the Holocaust, Israel, and Islam. She has recently moved to Jerusalem and has been approached to share her knowledge and experience with several universities in Jerusalem.