[Steve Eisenberg]

Most of this is left wing stuff. I've never heard a religious fundamentalist tell me that dinosaurs shouldn't be in textbooks.

Right. Plus, the gender inversion part is fully desired by the textbook authors themselves, who are a quite lefty crowd (I've got family in the business). Also desired by the authors is the environmentalist extremism, implying that the world being left our children is a far dirtier one than our parents left to us.

[Paulus Invictus]

According to Ravitch, two big publishers control the production of most text books in the US. She said today that she would prefer than each state and small groups of teachers, not unions, choose their own publishers and get the US Gummint out of education and the class rooms. Sound like a plan to me!