Textbook Scandal

[Libyan Sibyl]

The Great American Textbook Scandal:
www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/1030/6612178a.html

Find out what is in your children's textbooks. I know someone in the textbook industry, so I will post his "rumor" - what is in this article is true, and it happens more often than you think.

[Libyan Sibyl]

cfa-www.harvard.edu/cfa/ep/pressrel/textbooks.html

An excerpt..

All of this is certainly not a new problem. James Michener complained about the way school textbooks were written after a brief stint as a schoolbook editor back in the 1930s, writing that ''the entire educational process was watered down, level by level.'' And Richard Feynman wrote memorably of his experience with bad science texts in the 1950s in his bestselling memoir ''Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!'' After working with a California committee evaluating textbooks, he found ''that's the way all the books were: They said things that were useless, mixed-up, ambiguous, confusing, and partially incorrect. How anybody can learn science from these books, I don't know, because it's not science.''

[Marc LeVine]

Buy and read this book. I couldn't put it down...

www.booksamillion.com/ncom/books?pid=0743203267&ad=FGLBKS

After 2 centuries of reform movements, education has STILL not gotten it right.

Marc