Here's an interesting article on Texas' "revisionaries" who work hard to pump their values into textbooks. In the current model, Texas, one of textbook publisher's biggest customers, ends up rewriting the textbooks that are used all across the country.
Let's hope that Texas does find a way to accept opensource, they can run it through their approval process. At least the rest of the country won't be subject to learning that one certain special version of history.
Here's an interesting article on Texas' "revisionaries" who work hard to pump their values into textbooks. In the current model, Texas, one of textbook publisher's biggest customers, ends up rewriting the textbooks that are used all across the country.
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1001.blake.html
Let's hope that Texas does find a way to accept opensource, they can run it through their approval process. At least the rest of the country won't be subject to learning that one certain special version of history.