Regulating textbooks

[Chris Horton <ChrisAHorton2@HOTMAIL.COM>]

I was waiting for someone else to respond to Bernard Cleyet's (sp?) assertion that people get what they deserve as a reason not to involve the Federal government.  That sounds more like an ideological position than a contribution from someone committed to our profession. 

 

John Clement made some interesting proposals along this line but no one responded directly.

 

So here are some possible modest proposals for Congress:

 

#  Require all state textbook criteria to conform to NSF-established guidelines.

 

#  Abolish all State textbook commissions.

 

#  Require that one person of standing in their profession take public responsibility for each science text from the first grade level up.

 

#  Require that the science textbook committee of each State textbook commission contain a Ph.D. physicist, chemist and biologist.

 

#  Abolish textbooks.

 

#  Pass a resolution specifying that the children of each state shall get what they deserve, the details to be decided by Addison Wesley and Prentice Hall in consultation with the Moral Majority.

 

8-)

 

Chris

 

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Christopher A. Horton, Ph.D.
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"Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.  Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate ... Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all."
- Seneca, "Natural Questions", first century, quoted by Carl Sagan in "Cosmos", p.xi.

 

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