One aspect of our education crisis

This is very, very distressing. Unfortunately, not all that suprising:

I absolutely could not believe the number of mistakes — wrong dates and wrong facts everywhere. How in the world did these books get approved?

-- Ronald Heinemann, a former history professor at Hampden-Sydney College, who reviewed a textbook used in some Virginia schools at the state's request

(The above was found here at the Time Magazine site.)
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