Daily Gut: Rules to Avoid Failure

So this week, in Texas, the State Board of Education will be making important decisions about your child’s curriculum.

I say “your child,” because I have no kids – unless you count my ferrets “Captain Sparkles” and “Dangerzone.”

They’re children to me, but alas they don’t read books.

Yet.

Anyway, this 15 member board will be deciding what’s in and what’s out, and then publishers will follow – since Texas, after all, is one of the largest textbook buyers in the world.

Now, I keep hearing rumors about scary changes being made to the books. But, I think, we’re missing the point. It’s not about what’s being replaced in textbooks, but what’s being excluded entirely, from the process. (more…)