here is his emailed response to fox news. quote: that new edition is expected to cost $77.81. the question remains, how are these mistakes making their way into textbooks? they are selling them on the basis of how they look and, in a way, they look good. they have colored pictures all over them. they have boxes all over the place. reading programs are 50 to 80-million-dollar investments. so, we certainly want to get it the way the customer wants it. unfortunately, the customer isn t the teacher. in 30 open territory states, publishers sale textbooks to individual school districts. another 20 states from what s called textbook adoption where the board of education chooses textbooks for the entire state. they respond to commercial pressures that are coming not from the marketplace but from textbook adoption committees,
has been active to improve how they are portrayed. he works with textbook publisher publishers mifflin and mcgraw hill. forgive me in i am assume thawing don t know how the textbooks are published. but let me just walk you through very quickly. on his web site, he claimed he graduated with a degree in chemical engineering from the university of southern california. not true, according to our reporting and usc. after we brought this to his attention, the web site was quickly changed by the ircv s executive director munir sheik. he has a masters degree and got a film credit working where will smith on the movie ali. after turning down numerous interview requests, we showed up at public teaching workshop he was conducting in irvine,
knowledge. still publish books the way we used to traditionally but then what we do is we turn around and we openly license back. we say the faculty adopter of that book to change it to fit your course. changing all content, basically ownership rights to you. we take the version that they modify and we make that openly freely available to students online. our business model to make money is we have soft coverage books on hand held readers, books on your iphone. the whole point is to make student consumer king. are you worried that people can add to your textbook. it adds value. they have to teach around the book. what we are saying is fine. just make the book more like what you teach. wiki textbook kind of thing. if you choose to share it back in our catalog. you may make it better back into our catalog. kiki textbooks, who is supposed to monitor this new
textbooks with a single statewide adoption. so for many publishers whatever texas wants, the rest of the country gets. in the beginning in particular our efforts were to monitor, expose, and counter the efforts of the radical right in texas. there is a famous couple in texas mel and norma gail lore. there gabler. there was a textbook where norma gabler there was more copy on marilyn monroe than there was on george washington. the gablers had passed away they passed their organization on to a man named neil fry who runs research analysts. we do not object to multi culturallism. we object to political correctness. we object to the use of group grievance to segregate and divide and alienate. do you people calling up
from textbooks, the p.c. police have also done a number on american history. history books are quite critical of the u.s. showing all the terrible things we have done. racism, slavery and the interment of japanese in world war ii. they did not extend the criminal gaze to any other civilization. this is something that came up in one of my grandson s classes. the assignment was to decide whether or not columbus really did deserve a holiday and the children were given some rather biased selections to read. the spanish commander gave orders that the leading citizens who numbered over 100 and were roped together were to be tied to stakes set in the ground and burned alive. and all the children had decided that he didn t deserve a holiday. how do american children do in history? the one area where they do absolutely worst is u.s. history history. the majority of our high school seniors score below basic which