“If you want to know just what your kids are learning from their history books, all you have to do is apply the ‘Reagan test,’ says Professor Larry Schweikart. As the Texas textbook battle continues to simmer, Schweikart says the first thing he does to determine whether a book is politically slanted is to go to any section discussing President Ronald Reagan. What you’ll find there, he says, will tell you everything you need to know, he says. Schweikart says the majority of books he’s examined credit former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev with ending the Cold War, and not Reagan. That’s ‘a joke,’ Schweikart says. ‘I lived through the Reagan years, I remember.’ … Schweikart says the textbooks’ authors bring an inherently liberal viewpoint to their work. … Aside from bias, there are factual errors as well.” (03/11/10)