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Re: Regulating Textbooks (Was Bad textbooks )



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From: John Clement <clement@HAL-PC.ORG>
<< The only middle school textbook
that received a passing grade was Introductory Physical Science , - >>

This clearly is an area where the marketplace has failed completely and
vital public interests are at stake. Educating the public might help but
will probably take a generation. In the meantime we are fighting against
the lobbying power of the textbook companies in the statehouses.

I hate to suggest this because I hate to have bureaucrats telling me what I
can or can't to, but this is a classic case of a situation where Federal
regulation is called for.

What kind of government regulation would produce the desired results here,
and where the voice of the educators will outweigh that of the book mill
owners?

Chris Horton