Hat tip to Chris.
School textbooks, rife with errors, tentatively approved, 16 November 2007, The Dallas Morning News, Dallas, Texas
Proposed math books for elementary school children and their teachers have resulted in one computation that publishers would just as soon erase 109,263.
That’s the number of errors that were uncovered in proposed math textbooks that are under review by the State Board of Education for distribution to schools in the fall of 2008.
The total number of errors was nearly five times the total for last year, thanks to one publisher whose books contained more than 86,000 errors 79 percent of the total.
Does this have any effect on places other than Texas? Yes.
”The bottom line is that Texas and California are the biggest buyers of textbooks in the country, and what we adopt in Texas is what the rest of the country gets,” said Carol Jones, the field director of the Texas chapter of Citizens for a Sound Economy, part of the coalition monitoring books for errors, examples of political bias, omissions or information that it deems offensive and that it says gives the texts a liberal slant.
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“Information that it deems offensive?” Wondering what sort of information that would be, and how much of it would be found in the average math textbook. (Probably not much room for it, what with all the space that apparently has to be saved for factual errors.)