Saturday, November 17, 2007

Textbook Errors

According to the Dallas Morning News, 109,263 errors were found in Mathematics textbooks Texas planned to purchase for elementary school students. 79% (86,023) of the these errors were in Houghton Mifflin textbooks. Big states like Texas, California and New York comprise most of the textbook sales and so publishers will probably get this fixed, as a result of pressure from the Texas State Board of Education. Wonder where these textbook writers and editors went to school....

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