Text-Book

heh, a book nobody would buy/read voluntarily

book focused on Educating Kids

big (profitable) chunk of the Book Publishing industry

• but has to make its money within first couple semesters, because of huge Used Book market

  • uh, maybe that's a sign that the product isn't very good? Or maybe that's a critique of the whole College Education EcoSystem.

inherently tied to model of granular/isolated "subjects"?

Heavily shaped (at least K-12 history?) by Texas conservatives.

• 2020 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2020/10/19/conservative-activists-texas-have-shaped-history-all-american-children-learn/
• 2020: different textbooks in California and Texas
• 2014: eroding influence because of CommonCore?
• May'2010: getting big/worse again?
• Mar'2010: less important than it used to be?