“Of all the murders committed in New York City in 1964 — 636, to be ­precise — only that of Catherine ­Susan Genovese launched a whole subfield of social science:… Read more »

When her daughter brought home the new history book — Our Virginia: Past and Present — just handed out to her fourth grade class, as in other elementary school classrooms… 2 / Read more »

Surprise! Major history textbook fail in Virginia! Yesterday the Washington Post reported the latest round of silliness to emanate from Dixie regarding history textbooks (remember Texas’s starring role a few… Read more »

Damn it, Texas! The other day we had nothing but praises to sing for your forward-thinking ways. But now look at you. We turn our backs for a couple of… 2 / Read more »

Ray Bradbury, reigning King of Sci-fi, was transported via fiber optics from his home in Los Angeles to New York City yesterday. According to this post on the Wall Street… Read more »

An article in the Chronicle of Higher Education warns that format wars are heating up among text book publishers: “Major textbook publishers are firing the first shots in a format… Read more »

A little rusty on your geography? Well, a new geography textbook from Brazil’s Ministry of Education will make you feel better. According to an Associated Press report by Bradley Brooks,… 1 / Read more »

The prime minister of Japan, Taro Aso, has been coming under fire recently for his seeming inability to, well, read. He’s made so many mistakes reading speeches in his public… Read more »

For the past several months,” one of Canada’s largest publishers of college textbooks, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, “has been quietly trying to coax companies into buying advertising space in their texts,” reports… Read more »

The California Assembly has voted “to ban school districts from purchasing textbooks longer than 200 pages,” according to a Sacramento Bee article by Jim Sanders. The Bee report says Assembly… Read more »