A textbook is never just a textbook. It's a choice about which version of history survives, whose story gets told, and what a generation is taught to believe about its own nation. Across the world, curricula are being rewritten, not by accident, but by design, as states use classrooms to build the narratives they want remembered.

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UNESCO was founded on the premise that peace begins in the minds of people, which makes education one of its most contested territories. This committee asks delegates to defend the line between teaching history and manufacturing it, at a moment when that line is being tested in classrooms everywhere.