The Muddle Machine: Confessions of a Textbook Editor
The Muddle Machine: Confessions of a Textbook Editor
http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1195&issue=nov_04
is linked to from Paul Graham's essay What You'll Wish You'd Known.
This article exposes the scandal that is the textbook industry in the good ol' US of A.
In a nutshell, textbooks are bland sludge (your own child could have told you that - in fact probably is but you aren't listening).
This is because your Little Johnny's precious education has been hijacked by an extremist group hell-bent on making sure Little Johnny's brain doesn't get past the year 1650 AD.
Concise, highly readable and definitely worth reading.
****1/2 Four-and-a-half stars.
http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=Art_1195&issue=nov_04
is linked to from Paul Graham's essay What You'll Wish You'd Known.
This article exposes the scandal that is the textbook industry in the good ol' US of A.
In a nutshell, textbooks are bland sludge (your own child could have told you that - in fact probably is but you aren't listening).
This is because your Little Johnny's precious education has been hijacked by an extremist group hell-bent on making sure Little Johnny's brain doesn't get past the year 1650 AD.
Concise, highly readable and definitely worth reading.
****1/2 Four-and-a-half stars.
posted by Patrick Henry at 00:13
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