After a Connecticut publisher offered stickers to cover up an inaccurate sentence in a fourth grade Virginia history textbook, the Virginia Department of Education convened a group of five academics to review other books by the company. Today, the Washington Post reports that a second book by Five Ponds Press, Our America: To 1865, was published and approved for Virginia classrooms with a few more sticker-worthy sections.
Schools in Charlottesville and some surrounding counties used the first book, Our Virginia: Past and Present, but Albemarle schools did not. City and county school officials were not immediately available for comment on whether they use the second text. The Post reports that Ronald Heinemann, a former history professor at Hampden-Sydney College who reviewed the Five Ponds Press books, recommended the books be removed from classrooms "immediately, or at least by the end of the year."