From: "John Beamish" 

I thought I recalled that someone here was involved in the book publishing
industry.  This piece, describing the preparation of text books makes
interesting, eye-opening (occasionally eye-popping) reading.

I have no idea if there is a similar process in the GWN (yet another
research project for a future day).

http://www.edutopia.org/magazine/ed1article.php?id=art_1195&issue=nov_04

Amid the drier sections are little gems anecdotally making a point:

"A social studies textbook was attacked because a full-page photograph
showed a large family gathered around a dinner table. The objection? They
looked like Arabs. Did we rise up indignantly at this un-American display
of bias? We did not. Instead, we said that the family was Armenian. It
worked."

The whole topic is a bit outside the normal Canopus/Barkto panorama of
discussion points -- but I found it to be a worthwhile detour.

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