Several decades ago, textbooks were produced by many different competing publishing houses. This competition produced a variety of unique, creative books.

However, in the 1980s and 90s, these companies began to buy out each other, trying to eliminate the competition. Now four huge multinational corporations dominate the entire field of textbook publication: Pearson (a British company), Vivendi Universal (a French company), Reed Elsevier (British-Dutch), and McGraw-Hill (the only American-owned textbook corporation).

So instead of variety and individuality among secular textbooks, we now have imitative, less diversified texts that seek the largest possible market for the least investment.

Find out how the textbook publishing industry works today.

• The Textbook Trap
  • Do secular textbooks have errors?
  • Errors in science textbooks
  • Errors in history books
  • Examples of errors in secular textbooks
• The “Authors”
  • Who’s writing the secular textbooks?
  • How are secular textbooks compiled?
  • Why are textbooks compiled this way?
  • What happens when textbooks have no author?
• Censorship
  • How do secular publishers handle censorship?
  • Conservative Christian groups
  • Liberal and special interest groups
• What are they thinking?
  • Why do secular publishers do what they do?
  • The way it used to be in textbook publishing
  • The way it is now
• An Insider's Disclosure
  • What does an insider have to say about secular publishers and their agenda?
• Higher Standards
  • Measuring Christian textbooks against secular criteria
  • Informative articles on Christian education