Wikibooks talk:Textbook standards

This phrase "To ever be used by a class in a real school the book must adhere to set standards" is perjorative. Who determined that independent schools, community schools, and home schools aren't 'real'? There are better, more neutral, ways to say this idea. (Heath) 66.207.89.82 15:01, 3 Apr 2005 (UTC) Not only does the phrase exclude a number of types of schools it also does the same to types of learners. What about those of us that have long since graduated from "school" but still see ourselves as learners. Does mean we should simply vanish.

International standards
When I work on this, I have to try to decide how to interpret different standards to fit in the mix. I don't see why we need to have to coordinate books with standards that may or may not be actually good. I can testify, for instance, how standards lead to very poor academics in school. They do not interest most students, and those that do get interested is because the teacher/s lead them into further exploration. So I say, why not arrange books by interest levels, not by standards? Seems most sensible. Thanks, Laleena (talk) 22:18, 20 December 2007 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry, Laleena, but I can't really agree, much as I wish I could. What the standards provide is a minimum, a level of factuality and verifiability, so that an educator using our texts (or any text) will have a basic level of trust in the materials he or she is using to teach. We must write to that minimum standard to be accepted. Without that minimum, we cannot be used for teaching and the whole thing becomes a pointless exercise. However: Nothing says that we can't exceed that minimum, and it is there that we hopefully can do better than the main stream. All the same, a text, even as flexible and fluid a text as WB, cannot inspire the way a teacher can. WB can, under the hands of a suitable teacher, inspire a class to new heights as it researches outside the classroom to find material to add to the text, to make a palpable contribution to the next class and to the future. There is no text that can make a mediocre teacher any good. What we have to do is meet the standards, exceed them where possible, and we have no choice but to trust the teachers to make the magic from what we can provide. Chazz (talk) 06:43, 21 December 2007 (UTC)