Improvement in Basic Textbooks

Little drops of water do indeed wear away mountains, in the fullness of time. For twenty years, and especially during the past decade, school textbooks at every level have been exposed as boring, incompetent, and infected with ideology. But for lack of any substitutes, the dreary established manuals—especially at the basic level—have continued to be compulsory bestsellers.

At long last, nevertheless, some venturesome publishers are offering reformed textbooks, prepared on sound principles. I describe below a number of these early-spring flowers.

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Little drops of water do indeed wear away mountains, in the fullness of time. For twenty years, and especially during the past decade, school textbooks at every level have been exposed as boring, incompetent, and infected with ideology. But for lack of any substitutes, the dreary established manuals—especially at the basic level—have continued to be compulsory bestsellers.

At long last, nevertheless, some venturesome publishers are offering reformed textbooks, prepared on sound principles. I describe below a number of these early-spring flowers.