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A radical reform of the education system, one of the pillars of the four major reforms of Jerzy Buzek's government, followed by a reform of the core curriculum by Minister Katarzyna Hall, and finally a controversial reform by Anna Zalewska under which some middle-level schools in operation since 1999 are being shut down are events covered in numerous publications, among them in leading opinion weeklies in Poland. One of such weeklies is "Polityka," published continuously since 1957, where dozens of articles on education and reforms have been published over the last 20 years. The article is a concise analysis of the texts published in "Polityka", the issues raised and the authors' attitudes to the changes introduced in the subsequent years to the Polish education system. ; A radical reform of the education system, one of the pillars of the four major reforms of Jerzy Buzek's government, followed by a reform of the core curriculum by Minister Katarzyna Hall, and finally a controversial reform by Anna Zalewska under which some middle-level schools in operation since 1999 are being shut down are events covered in numerous publications, among them in leading opinion weeklies in Poland. One of such weeklies is "Polityka," published continuously since 1957, where dozens of articles on education and reforms have been published over the last 20 years. The article is a concise analysis of the texts published in "Polityka", the issues raised and the authors' attitudes to the changes introduced in the subsequent years to the Polish education system.

School history education, despite many variables affecting its shape and character, is still very much based on the oral transmission of the teacher and on textbooks. Examination of the content provided by individual teachers behind the closed doors of the classrooms in which they work with students is practically impossible on a larger scale. The situation is different with regard to school history textbooks, which, first of all, have been developed on the basis of the core curricula announced by the minister of education and science. Secondly, they are reviewed by experts specially appointed for this purpose. Thirdly, they are publicly available, and thus can be comprehensively assessed. The described conditions allow for the assessment of particular events from the past, including the first political and military battle for Upper Silesia, with particular emphasis on the First Silesian Uprising of 1919. The events of August of that year occupy a place adequate to the role and importance they had in the process of shaping the borders of the Polish state after World War I in the pages of textbooks that have been used in the Polish schools for over twenty years. For obvious reasons, they occupy much more space in textbooks for secondary schools, which also contain more iconographic materials and instructions for students. In conclusion, it should be stated that most of the textbooks analyzed enable the students to learn the most important facts about the genesis, course and significance of the uprising.