There is a reason that Texas is at the center of so many textbook battles:
Oh yeah. Your green friend and mine: money. Texas and California are responsible for the largest shares of textbook sales in the nation, so naturally textbook companies are going to adhere to whatever requirements they have in place. Which, in Texas, is a three-step process besieged by zealots and salesmen where the question of what is going to be the best tool to help students learn does not seem to factor into the equation. It also, horrifically, results in some very disturbing revisions to history such as giving Jefferson Davis (leader of the Confederates during the Civil War) equal space to Abraham Lincoln (you've heard of him, right?). The most recent round of revisions by an avowedly right-wing state school board are detailed here.*Shudder*
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