re: #52 RogueOne

Yeah. They do. We had this whole argument during the tx affair. Indiana textbooks, both history and english courses, are tilted towards Indiana history and I bet if you checked with your local high school you’ll probably find the same thing. This is 2010, it’s incredibly easy to make changes and publish anything you want.

It took me almost no time at all to find this:

Because the Texas textbook market is so large, books assigned to the state’s 4.7 million students often rocket to the top of the market, decreasing costs for other school districts and leading them to buy the same materials.

“The books that are altered to fit the standards become the bestselling books, and therefore within the next two years they’ll end up in other classrooms,” said Fritz Fischer, chairman of the National Council for History Education, a group devoted to history teaching at the pre-college level. “It’s not a partisan issue, it’s a good history issue.”

— Washington Post, March 18, 2010