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Like many publishing executives, Roger Rogalin of D.C. Heath has doubted that school authorities would press for upgrading the notoriously bland content of textbooks. Even after California's superintendent of public instruction Bill Honig warned publishers last year that his state meant business in reaching for higher standards, Rogalin said, "We've heard a number of times that things were going to change, only to see them fall apart down the road...
...pedagogical pussyfooting? Evolution is controversial, says Honig, "and publishers kept watering it down until children couldn't understand what evolution was." Indeed, over the past decade pressure from believers in the literal truth of the Bible's creation story prompted many of the 22 states with textbook adoption codes to back off from Darwin. Market-sensitive publishers swung into line...
Others disagree vehemently. Says Cuban-born Carol Pendas Whitten, head of the ^ Department of Education's Office of Bilingual Education: "If parents want to preserve the native language, that's fine, but I do not think it should be the role of the school." Another opponent is Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction, who insists such instruction "should be transitional . . . Bilingual education is not going to be used as a cultural isolation program...
FIRST NOVICE 1 RADCLIFFE (bow Julia Holland 2, Beth Steinhorn; 3, Martha Rodgers; 4, Donna Marcin; 5, Kim Brown; 6, Carolyn Greis; 7, Jenny Honig; stroke Susan Forter coxswain Margaret Liu) 2 Brown 3 Northeastern...
...Honig remains confident of impending change. At the conference he told publishers of new, higher standards, outlined in two pamphlets approved by the state board of education. But industry representatives are skeptical. "We've heard a number of times that things were going to change," says Roger Rogalin, editor in chief of D.C. Heath & Co. Yet the formulas remain in place. "It's a catch-22 situation," sums up Bernstein. "Until the states stop requiring readability formulas, publishers won't stop using them to write and edit texts...