In time for the start of the new school year in September, it is revising a primary-school textbook to include Mr Jiang's poem, and plans to include it in a second one, of classical Chinese poetry set to music.
This is the first textbook to include topics such as Morse-Smale flows, min-max theory, moment maps and equivariant cohomology, and complex Morse theory.
A bill introduced in December by State Senator Mark Leno, Democrat of San Francisco, would require all of the state's history textbooks to include figures and events in gay history and portray them "in a positive light".
The decision, taken by 2,500 scientists at the International Astronomical Union meeting in Prague, will force an urgent rewrite of the textbooks to include only eight planets in the solar system, with three newly-defined "dwarf planets", of which Pluto is now one.
Based on the results, Bond says, "we are hoping people will rewrite ecology textbooks" to include fire as a major player in the shaping of the world's vegetation.
In 2011, Virginia state lawmaker David W. Marsden, acting on behalf of Korean-American voters, introduced a bill to the education panel of the Senate of Virginia that would have required public school textbooks to include both "Sea of Japan and East Seaeas as names.
Several individuals with expertise in the area of systematic reviews (JG, DM, JB, CB) met to identify key textbooks to include out of thier personal knowledge of textbooks in the area.
Many biologists and teachers said they feared that the board would force textbook publishers to include what skeptics see as weaknesses in Darwin's theory to sow doubt about science and support the Biblical version of creation.
Explaining the meaning of fractions to students using clear language (for example, explaining that 3/4 means 3 of the 1/4 units), and requesting textbook writers to include more challenging problems are other promising strategies.
This is consistent with the 42% of biology textbook diagrams found to include some representation of time (Catley and Novick 2008).
While textbook authors tend to include most of the trees and all too many twigs, they neglect to give readers even a glimpse of what they might find memorable: the forests.
