Thinking about applying for a job as a textbook editor? Tamim Ansary tells it how it is over at Edutopia:

Every time a friend with kids in school tells me textbooks are too generic, I think back to that moment. "Who writes these things?" people ask me. I have to tell them, without a hint of irony, "No one." It's symptomatic of the whole muddled mess that is the $4.3 billion textbook business.

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