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PoliticalBiker

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14. Now that we have identified the problem...

Tue Jan 22, 2013, 05:04 PM

Jan 2013

... how do we, as a nation, fix it?

If I'm reading this information correctly, Texass somehow manages to influence/determine/print textbooks for the rest of the country.
How does this happen? How does the Dept. of Education, in Washington DC, approve distribution of Texass textbooks on a national level?
My experience is that different schools have different books for the same or similar classes. I would be unreasonable for every teacher to be told to use the same book all over the country for 6th grade history or 8th grade economics.

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How Texas Inflicts Bad Textbooks on Us [View all] sasha031 Jan 2013 OP

And it is worse than that. longship Jan 2013 #1

The largest reason isn't in the OP jmowreader Jan 2013 #2

I was reading the comments of a woman who seems to know what she talking about sasha031 Jan 2013 #4

Not quite, but almost jmowreader Jan 2013 #9

Kind of off-topic, but it's why NC Tunkamerica Jan 2013 #8

NC's liquor regulations have always been a joke jmowreader Jan 2013 #10

Texas has been giving us bad things from schoolbook warehouses for decades. nyquil_man Jan 2013 #3

then my question would be why not give the contract to another state? sasha031 Jan 2013 #5

Oh boy jmowreader Jan 2013 #11

oohhhhh good one nt okaawhatever Jan 2013 #6

My school district modrepub Jan 2013 #7

I remember some professors and teachers who never used books, used PowerPoint instead ck4829 Jan 2013 #13

Here's a recent example of the right wing pseudoreligion being pushed on students ck4829 Jan 2013 #12

Now that we have identified the problem... PoliticalBiker Jan 2013 #14