Editing Education in the United States (section)

====Textbook review and adoption====
In some states, textbooks are selected for all students at the state level, and decisions made by larger states, such as California and Texas, that represent a considerable market for textbook publishers and can exert influence over the content of textbooks generally, thereby influencing the curriculum taught in public schools.<ref>{{cite web|last=Blake|first=Mariah|url=http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1001.blake.html|title=Revisionaries: How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids' textbooks. January/February 2010|publisher=Washingtonmonthly.com|access-date=September 21, 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130906142506/http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2010/1001.blake.html|archive-date=September 6, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

In 2010, the [[Texas Board of Education]] passed more than 100 amendments to the curriculum standards, affecting history, sociology, and economics courses to 'add balance' given that academia was 'skewed too far to the left'.<ref name=TexasConservative>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html|title=Texas Conservatives win Curriculum Change|work=The New York Times|date=March 12, 2010 |last1=Jr |first1=James C. Mckinley }}</ref> One specific result of these amendments is to increase education on Moses' influences on the founding of the United States, going as far as calling him a "founding father".<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/23/us/texas-approves-disputed-history-texts-for-schools.html|title=Texas Approves Disputed History Texts for Schools|work=The New York Times|date=November 22, 2014 }}</ref> A critical review of the twelve most widely used American [[high school]] history textbooks argued that they often disseminate factually incorrect, [[Eurocentric]], and [[mythology|mythologized]] views of [[History of the United States|American history]].<ref>[[James W. Loewen]], "[[Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong]]" (The New Press, 1995)</ref>

As of January 2009, the four largest college textbook publishers in the United States were: [[Pearson Education]] (including such imprints as [[Addison-Wesley]] and [[Prentice Hall]]), [[Cengage Learning]] (formerly Thomson Learning), [[McGraw-Hill Education]], [[Houghton Mifflin Harcourt]].{{citation needed|date=December 2013}} Other U.S. textbook publishers include: [[Abeka]], [[BJU Press]], [[John Wiley & Sons]], [[Jones and Bartlett Publishers]], [[F. A. Davis Company]], [[W. W. Norton & Company]], [[SAGE Publications]], and [[Flat World Knowledge]].