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Robert Anthony Altemeyer (6 June 1940 – 7 February 2024) was a Canadian psychologist who was Professor of Psychology at the University of Manitoba. [1] [2] Altemeyer also produced the right-wing authoritarianism scale, or RWA Scale, [3] as well as the related left-wing authoritarianism scale, or LWA Scale.
The RWA scale is balanced to have an equal number of pro and anti authoritarian statements. The RWA scale also has excellent internal reliability, with coefficient alpha typically measuring between 0.85 and 0.94. [15] The RWA scale has been modified over the years as many of the items lost their social significance as society changed.
[5] [6] It was then picked up by Little Green Footballs, which was a conservative site at the time, [7] and by other conservative blogs, which also claimed the book had an anti-Jewish bias. [8] A group called The Textbook League said that TCI had consulted with Islamic Networks Group, which it called "a Muslim propaganda agency". [9]
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by James W. Loewen that critically examines twelve popular American high school history textbooks. [1] In the book, Loewen concludes that the textbook authors propagate false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of American history. In addition to his ...
Romance Writers of America, a genre-specific writers association; Rot Weiss Ahlen, a football club in Ahlen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany; Royal West of England Academy, an art gallery and academy in Clifton, Bristol, UK; Royal West Academy, a secondary school in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Loewen was born in Decatur, Illinois, on February 6, 1942. [1] His father, David, was a medical director and physician from an immigrant Mennonite community; his mother, Winifred (Gore), was a librarian and teacher. [1] [2] Loewen was raised in Decatur, where he attended MacArthur High School and was a National Merit Scholar as a graduate in ...
The book is divided has 19 essays and those essays are further divided into three parts titled "U.S. History to 1877," "U.S. History since 1877," and "Reconceptualizing the Narrative." The sixteen essays that makes up the first two parts show how central Native Americans where to the history of the United States.
Ron Jones (born 1941) is an American writer and formerly a teacher in Palo Alto, California.He is best known for his classroom exercise called "The Third Wave" and the book he wrote about the event, which inspired the made-for-TV movie The Wave and other works, including a theatrical film in 2008.