“When you realize that your history books and your science books and your literature books are not the result of experts sitting down and making it a wise decision, but of political pressure groups coming to the state textbook hearings, this is wrong.” BookStatesPoliticalLiteratureRealizingDecisionResultsWiseGroupsSittingPressureDown AndHearingExpertsTextbooksSitting DownHistory BooksWise DecisionScience BooksPressure Groups Author:Diane Ravitch
“Friday is my night for letting my hair down, and once a month a group of my old male friends will come down and stay at our house in Hampshire.” NightHouseGroupsHairMonthsDown AndMalesFridayHampshire Author:Rupert Penry-Jones
“My parents always have taught me 'you're good enough'. So, whenever I got bad comments from the judges, or I'd get on the Internet and read what bloggers have written about me, I would get so down, and I would get so sad. The biggest support group was obviously my parents, and I'd call them. And they'd build me up.” EnoughParentSupportWrittenGroupsTaughtJudgingInternetDown AndGood EnoughCommentSo SadBloggersSupport Groups Author:Carmen Rasmusen