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After receiving a pin-point Leo Lenzillo pass just short of the midfield stripe, Keller-Sarmiento streaked sixty yards down the right side of the field, dribbling past half a dozen somewhat bewildered MIT physics majors in the process, and then dumped the ball into the net. The textbook form fast break made the score...
Last year, in America Revised, a study of American history school textbooks since 1833, Frances FitzGerald found that textbook publishers, eye on the profits, have learned to package a bland and pietistically harmless kind of book that dutifully records the point of view of every minority that raises its hand, or voice, but gives no coherent idea of American theme or direction. Says Pittsburgh's Hays: "We haven't had a new synthesis of American history since Charles and Mary Beard. Instead, we have had people going off in all these little directions and knowing more and more...
...generally runs through tenth grade and covers about the same amount of schooling that U.S. students get attending five days a week from kindergarten through twelfth grade. City schools are better than rural schools, but most Soviet students study the same standard curriculum. Usually there is only one current textbook authorized for each major subject, though the 15 republics of the Soviet Union are allowed to have special courses in the history and geography of their regions...
...Textbooks and Paperwork. Teachers are consulted about textbooks but rarely decide what books are finally bought. The textbook business is a $1.3 billion a year industry. Books are ordered by editorial committees and updated at the pleasure of the publisher to sell in as many school systems as possible. Since the late 1960s, according to Reading Expert Copperman, publishers have found that if a textbook is to sell really well, it must be written at a level "two years below the grade for which it is intended...
Economists readily admit that they do not know how high unemployment will go in this recession. Confessed one top White House policymaker: "We've simply thrown away the textbook on this one. We've never started a downturn with such a high unemployment rate...