{"id":23522,"date":"2011-11-06T22:09:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T05:09:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/custom-textbooks-save-money-but-are-a-potentially-ideological-minefields.html"},"modified":"2011-11-06T22:38:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T05:38:32","slug":"custom-textbooks-save-money-but-are-a-potentially-ideological-minefields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/custom-textbooks-save-money-but-are-a-potentially-ideological-minefields.html","title":{"rendered":"Custom textbooks save money, but are a potentially ideological minefields"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can see locally sourced (or even multi-district-sourced) texts for things like &#8212; well, math and statistics are probably the best examples, easily and objectively aligned with state testing (and curriculum) standards.  <\/p>\n<p>When you get into less objective areas, though, I can easily see problems crop up.  Imagine the battles over the Texas social studies curriculum, only now multiplied over each district&#39;s individually crafted (or generously donated from a third party) online social studies texts.  Ditto for biology texts, or other sciences that have ideological battles raging over them.  <\/p>\n<p>As the commenter to the article noted, anything that kicks textbook publishers in the teeth is an attractive idea, but there are potential risks to this kind of idea as well. #ddtb<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/www.therepublic.com\/view\/story\/1dbc25bcc4ae4060a421fa204e91c0c8\/MN--Online-Textbooks\/'>Anoka-Hennepin teachers write their own online textbook, save district $175,000 | The Republic<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMINNEAPOLIS &#8211; The new textbooks in Michael Engelhaupt&#39;s statistics class at Blaine High School are kind of cheap and won&#39;t last long, but he doesn&#39;t mind. After all, he wrote them.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can see locally sourced (or even multi-district-sourced) texts for things like &#8212; well, math and statistics are probably the best examples, easily and objectively aligned with state testing (and curriculum) standards. When you get into less objective areas, though, I can easily see problems crop up. Imagine the battles over the Texas social studies &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/11\/06\/custom-textbooks-save-money-but-are-a-potentially-ideological-minefields.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Custom textbooks save money, but are a potentially ideological minefields&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,46],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-23522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-school-daze","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":24495,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2011\/12\/13\/no-text-is-worth-a-life-yours-or-anyone-elses.html","url_meta":{"origin":23522,"position":0},"title":"No text is worth a life &#8212; 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