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Boston Globe: bad sci textbooks



I was interviewed a few days ago about my "misconceptions in textbooks"
website, and the result was just published. See:

TEXTBOOKS FLUNK OUT, 5/17/99 Boston Globe
http://www.globe.com/dailyglobe2/137/science/Textbooks_flunk_out+.shtml
(http://www.amasci.com/miscon/miscon.html)

The author doesn't pull any punches. I was amazed to hear about evidence
for decreases in certain test scores of students who used physics
textbooks in high school. Well, not *that* amazed.

(if interested, view it soon, since it will be moved to the archives after
a couple of days, and they charge $$$ to access them.)

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