The Education Ministry is demanding less when it comes to schoolbooks but continues to stubbornly impose its views on such issues as national security, family values and war compensation, the 1997 textbook screening shows.
The results of the screening, unveiled by the Education Ministry on Tuesday, show that fewer "opinions" -- or instructions to rewrite passages -- were issued for second-year textbooks compared to the 1996 screening of first-year high school textbooks. The ministry reviews high school texts annually, one grade at a time.
The 314 second-year high school texts submitted for screening last year are intended for use in classrooms next spring. Each text averaged 24 opinions, down from 30 in 1996.