All of the common core standards stuff about critical reading and critical thinking and so on can only be positive.

Conclusions are not always pleasant.

The world, of course, doesn't come divided into disciplines. The world just is.

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.

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

Students will start finding history interesting when their teachers and textbooks stop lying to them.

I'm looking forward to the future, which is a good thing, because it's coming.