The Great. American Textbook Scandal

摘要

The nasty scrap inside California's process for picking its public school textbooks shows why publishers and educrats must share the blame for poor test results. One day in march of last year Leonard Tramiel, a balding, dark-bearded man of 45, sat alone in a science classroom in Mil-pitas, a middle-class community on the south end of San Francisco Bay. Having earned a Ph.D. in physics from Columbia University and having made a bundle in Silicon Valley, Tramiel taught occasionally around the Bay Area as a volunteer.