Ms. Innami's sentiment seems likely to be a common one in the textbook decision-making process, and too in Mr. Koizumi's decision about visiting the shrine, which most commentators here have been treating as a crisis of his own making.
Elementary and high school publishing remains intensely competitive and dependent on textbook decisions made by states and school boards.
They declared that if the government goes ahead with its plan for a single approved textbook (the decision is due this month), they would write an alternative and promote that a threat which has to be taken seriously since superintendents control big education budgets.
Back in college, I had a textbook entitled Decision by Debate.
I use textbooks as a convenient assay of the curricula for which they are developed and marketed, because groups of gateway course instructors and other stakeholders tend to make textbook adoption decisions together with other decisions regarding learning objectives of the course(s), curricula, and syllabi.
Professor Miller, along with his colleague Martin Starr, wrote the seminal textbook, Executive Decisions and Operations Research, which was translated into sixteen languages for use around the world.
In the case of the Microsoft decision, textbook economics says that a breakup of the kind now ordered, aside from disrupting the firm itself, will actually exacerbate the problem of monopoly power, raising prices and increasing market distortions.
But in 2010, she joined classmates who took to the streets of this dusty county seat to protest the new Chinese-language textbooks and the decision to limit Tibetan to a single class.
James D. Marston, director of the Texas regional office of the Environmental Defense Fund, said he worried that, given Texas' size and centralized approval process, its decision on textbooks could have an outsize influence on how publishers prepare science content for the national market.
Gut feelings and some important aspects of context knowledge, i.e. all a family physician knows about a patient apart from the signs and symptoms, are not discussed in traditional textbooks on medical decision-making, but often used by family physicians to support their diagnostic reasoning [ 3- 5].
To Stevens, however, the decision is a textbook example of judicial restraint, deferring to the policy decisions of elected officials and following clearly established precedents.
