A mother who called out a caption in her son’s World Geography textbook has started a social media firestorm — and has convinced the book publisher to change its language regarding the slave trade.

PEARLAND, TX -- The publisher of a high school textbook that referred to slaves brought to America as "workers" is apologizing and says more diversity will be added to review boards. McGraw-Hill has ...

Roni Dean-Burren’s son, Coby Burren, sent her this message after reading a passage in his McGraw-Hill World Geography book. Roni Dean-Burren via Facebook A University of Houston doctoral student and ...

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 ...

When Roni Dean-Burren and her 15-year-old son, Coby, discovered a factual error about slavery in a textbook, they were shocked and concerned. Dean-Burren posted a ...

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 ...

The Texas State Board of Education, the body that decides what millions of Texas schoolchildren should and shouldn’t learn, is the frequent subject of ridicule, and rightly so, what with its penchant ...

Mothers of teenagers are used to getting frustrating text messages, but the one that Roni Dean-Burren received from her 15-year-old son last week wasn’t about alcohol, dating or money for the movies.

PEARLAND, TX (KTRK) -- The publisher of a high school textbook that referred to slaves brought to America as "workers" is apologizing and says more diversity will be added to review boards.