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Textbooks need to be taken with a grain of salt

Submitted by Deborah Hazen on Thu, 07/09/2009 - 5:53am.

A Textbook Example of What's Wrong with Education from Edutopia highlights the messy underworld of textbook publishing where Texas rules and the mishmash in the book is a tired mess. At least information I find on the Web isn't bound in a very official and impartial looking book after having been scrubbed by conservative lobbyists to safeguard against any liberal content. Instead, I know that anyone out there can publish anything out there and can teach my students the process of critically analyzing the "story" that they are reading on-line. This is a great life skill right--they need to be able to parse messages from politicians, marketers, different news organizations...

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