Yeah, seriously. Not to mention testing all their web applications in IE6, IE7, IE8, ...

I suppose they could either run Windows in a VM, or bravely try and do some testing using Wine, but, uh, realistically, if they're continuing to develop software for Windows (and Windows is definitely the lead SKU for most of their desktop apps,) then they're going to need a whole bunch of Windows installs lying around. Maybe they're not counting virtualized copies of Windows?

I doubt that any of the "facts" in the Texas curriculum are undocumented. The problem lies in the making of a textbook. There's only so many days in the school year, and only so many pages in a history textbook. Choosing which facts make it to print and which do not is necessarily a judgment call. Which of these facts are the most significant developments in American history? There's no "objective" way to answer this, since importance is itself a value judgment.

That would require her to have publicly taken positions on issues.

Several billion dollars richer?

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I don't know, maybe it can. It would depend on how much more/less "specific" California's textbook guidelines are than Texas'. It sounds like Texas' guidelines just got more specific - maybe that means it will also have less influence over the choice of textbooks available to other states?

From the NY Times:

"California is the largest textbook market, but besides being bankrupt, it tends to be so specific about what kinds of information its students should learn that few other states follow its lead."

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14texbooks-t.html?scp=3&sq=texas%20education&st=cse

Well, that's a horse of a different color, then. Although I can't seem to find mention of it in the (very brief) linked article. Do you have a more detailed report?

Actually, the article clarifies that these images are from the pre-Aztec ruins of Teotihuacan, which would make them at least 1,000 years old.

Also, looking more generally across all regions:

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