Absolutely correct. Companies have to make edits to suit individual
states requirements for curriculum, sometimes at the cost of the
quality of teaching material. Think Texas and the hot button issue of
teaching evolution in the schools. Now we're getting into "intelligent
design". Or Massachusetts and the evil MCAS tests. El-Hi publsihers
can have as many as 20 or so iterations of a single text to meet
individual states' needs, and those needs often have nothing to do
with just simply teaching a subject, but instead on *how* to teach the
subject including not teaching certain aspects of it. It's both
frustrating and expensive.
It does not help that a lot of textbook writers, many of then
freelancers, are so abysmally paid.
dej
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lay an invincible summer."--Albert Camus
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