Daniel Ehrenberg wrote:
I don't think we should focus on standards.
I think that it is absolutely imperative that we do.
It would be better to focus on making good textbooks.
But, have you looked at the standards? I don't see any tension at all between making good textbooks and following the standards.
These groups don't particularly like books that were formulaically constructed around state standards.
If they're just opposed to the standards *period*, because they want a Christ-centered curriculum or whatever, then they aren't really going to be happy with our product, either.
But if the opposition is due to the generally lame ways that mainstream texts write to the standards *and* to pander to various pressure groups, then they will like our texts a lot, because they will be NPOV.
--Jimbo