The American education system is plagued by a growing number of problems, one of them being the lack of attention given to teaching civics, history and government. The United States has transformed in less than a quarter of the new millennium, due in great part to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Despite this, the subject is not adequately covered by the public school system. This is evident when analyzing the curricula and state standards taken as a sample from five regions of the U.S., as well as textbooks published by the three companies that make up the majority of the education material market. While policy may direct teachers to mention 9/11 in some way, it is by no means sufficient enough for students to truly understand the vast repercussions of the events of that day. The analyzed curricula and textbooks are biased, brief, confusing, and overall inadequate for a generation defining event of that magnitude.
