The layout of textbooks, I think, has been done with an assumption that students don't read.

I think the first important thing is that usually most textbooks are not written by their authors. And so by author I mean the people who did not write them; so it's a new definition of "author."

Textbooks pretty much have no real drama. They have no real storyline. To the extent they have a storyline.

There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.

Cherishing Columbus is a characteristic of white history, not American history.

Columbus not only sent the first slaves acroiss the Atlantic, he sent more slaves than any other individual

I don't think teachers read the textbooks. And I don't think adoption committees read the textbooks before they adopt them. I think they look at them.