Why Fairfax's textbook recall is surprising
By Valerie Strauss
What is surprising about Fairfax County’s new recall of a social studies textbook approved by Virginia officials despite containing dozens of errors is that every other system using the book hasn't done the same thing.
My colleague Kevin Sieff reported that the superintendent of Fairfax County Public Schools, Jack D. Dale, has decided that fourth-grade history will be taught using supplemental materials until errors in "Our Virginia, Past and Present" are corrected in a subsequent edition.
The book, published by Connecticut-based Five Ponds Press, was written by Joy Masoff, who is not a trained historian and who included
