PEDIATRICS Vol. 95 No. 2 February 1995, pp. A44
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TEXTBOOK COMPLIANCE COMMISSION

J. F. L. MD

In 1988 education author Harriet Tyson wrote A Conspiracy of Good Intentions: America's Textbook Fiasco. It tells a chilling tale. "California," says Tyson, "has a special [textbook] ‘compliance commission’ that checks for compliance with all the social issues that are being pursued by special interest groups including feminists, a black power advocate, environmentalists, family values advocates and the like. The compliance commission counted how many female lead characters there are in the textbook, how many blacks and Chicanos appear in pictures, and so on."

If the head counts didn't come out to their liking, the textbook either had to be rewritten or it would be rejected.