Books Over 200 Pages Considered Harmful To Students
Bill puts page limit on California textbooks
By JIM SANDERS, Sacramento Bee, May 26, 2005.
California lawmakers have voted “to ban school districts from purchasing textbooks longer than 200 pages.”
Can they be serious? Apparently they are. Assemblywoman Jackie Goldberg, a Los Angeles Democrat and chair of the Assembly Education Committee, said that schools are teaching kids with the same kinds of massive books that were used generations ago, though the world has changed significantly. Publishers and Republicans oppose this bill. Gov. Schwarzenegger has not yet taken a position on the bill.
AB 756 would force publishers to condense key ideas, basic problems and basic knowledge into 200 pages, then to provide a rich appendix with Web sites where students can go for more information.
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