But, where there's a will there's a way, and I did eventually manage through other means to obtain a copy. I just received this and haven't had time to go over it in detail yet, but a quick glance was all it took to confirm that the printed curriculum contains not only the lies from the NCBCPS website and David Barton's radio program that I noted in my previous pieces, but many more -- including six of the misquotes that appear on Barton's own Unconfirmed Quotations list, among them the infamous James Madison Ten Commandments misquote. What, exactly, is NCBCPS advisory board member Barton, whose advice to the readers of his website regarding these quotes is to "refrain from using them until such time that an original primary source may be found" advising the NCBCPS on?

There will be much more to come on this once I've had a chance to more thoroughly examine the curriculum, but for now, here are a few of the inaccuracies that immediately jumped out at me.

The following misleading version of the Aitken Bible story appears on page 46 of the curriculum:

Upon our Declaration of Independence, the exportation of Bibles from Great Britain to the rebelling Colonies was heavily curtailed. Our Revolution allowed us to break royal copyright control on the text of the King James Bible. In 1782 the first Bible printed in English in America was published in Philadelphia by Robert Aitken, the official printer to the United States Congress, in direct and deliberate violation of King's copyright and in defiant answer to the Bible embargo. This Bible became known as "the Bible of the Revolution."

The 1782 Aitken Bible includes a reprinting of the congressional Resolution of official support and endorsement regarding "Aitken's impression of the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament," as follows:

"Sept 10, 1782:

'Whereupon, RESOLVED, that the United States and Congress Assembled highly approve the pious and laudable undertaking of Mr. Aitken, as subservient to the interest of religion, as well as an instance of the progress of arts in this country...they recommend this edition of the Bible to the inhabitants of the United States.'"

Although I already explained the Aitken Bible story in detail in a previous piece, Barton Revises History to Promote the National Council On Bible Curriculum In Public Schools, there are a few additional variations in this NCBCPS version that I can't let go unnoticed. One is the description of Aitken as "the official printer to the United States Congress." Aitken had for a time been the printer to the Continental Congress, but this was several years before he began printing his Bible, and one thing had nothing to do with the other. The only conceivable reason for mentioning this would be to give the impression that the printing of the Bibles was an official printing by Congress. The other is the manner in which the resolution itself is edited, particularly the emphasis put on the last sentence. This emphasis, combined with the omission of the part of the resolution that states that it was the accuracy of Aitken's edition, and not the Bible itself, that Congress was endorsing, along with the knowledge from the prior paragraph that this was a King James Version, could easily give students the impression that by their use of the word"edition" Congress was not only recommending the Bible itself, but specifically the KJV. Also, for some unexplainable reason, the picture accompanying this section on the Aitken Bible is a portrait of Thomas Jefferson, a man who has nothing whatsoever to do with the story.

Also in the NCBCPS curriculum, as well as in the information packet containing instructions for those approaching their school boards with the curriculum, is the lie about Jefferson and Bible reading in the Washington D.C. public schools. Page 233 of the curriculum also contains the misquote (admitted by Barton to be unconfirmed) that accompanies this lie on the NCBCPS website. See