This link has been bookmarked by 35 people . It was first bookmarked on 08 Apr 2009, by Janet Cerni.
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John FaigA great article that I enjoy reading every so often about a teacher who becomes a schoolbook editor and gains negative insights into the textbook industry.
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Kelly BauerSome years ago, I signed on as an editor at a major publisher of elementary school and high school textbooks, filled with the idealistic belief that I'd be working with equally idealistic authors to create books that would excite teachers and fill young m
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eflclassroom 2.0Necessary reading for ALL teachers!
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Who writes these things?" people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, "No one." It's symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business.
Textbooks are a core part of the curriculum, as crucial to the teacher as a blueprint is to a carpenter, so one might assume they are conceived, researched, written, and published as unique contributions to advancing knowledge. In fact, most of these books fall far short of their important role in the educational scheme of things. They are processed into existence using the pulp of what already exists, rising like swamp things from the compost of the past. The mulch is turned and tended by many layers of editors who scrub it of anything possibly objectionable before it is fed into a government-run "adoption" system that provides mediocre material to students of all ages.
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There's no quick, simple fix for the blanding of American textbooks, but several steps are key to reform:
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Jerrid KruseTextbooks are prepackaged crap - they actually have to find someone to say they are the authors!
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edtechtalkThe textbook story (with a bit on Texas) and alternatives. A Textbook Example of What?s Wrong with Education | Edutopia
Praxis6942 education textbooks publishing 20090419 edutopia textbook 20090426 science
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Demetri Orlandodescribes textbook publishing from the inside, and Texas as the tail that wags the dog
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Janet CerniSecrets revealed!
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