Current Events > Are high school textbooks worse today than they were 10 years ago?

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I got to read a portion of a high school statistics book recently, though it was stated as being suitable for high school or introductory college. It was...very basic. Not only that, but it was verbose as hell, with the author going off on tangents to talk about things in his life that sort of applied to statistics but not really. It was nice that there were completely worked examples but the amount of repetition was insane. And then the side column contained a shortened recaps of the paragraphs they appeared next to, as though they didn't expect you to actually read any of it.

I don't remember textbooks being that bad when I was in school. Have they gotten worse?

Tbf, the mathematics of statistics is fairly intuitive once you understand the concepts, so a concepts first approach isn't half bad.
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Idk. My senior year was government/economics and that was the first book of any historical nature that had Clinton in it as our current president. This was 99/00.
My history books in high school were still all circa the early 90s and if they would mention the current era at all it was Bush 41 that was featured. History books in junior high were all about Russia and the cold war but at least there it was semi forgivable since that was '93-'96 and more current. Still old though.
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