Mel Gabler, 89; Influenced Public School Textbooks
LA Times
Mel Gabler, a small-town Texan who exerted an outsize influence on the textbooks that American elementary and secondary schools adopt, died Dec. 19 at a hospital in Tyler, Texas. He suffered a massive brain hemorrhage after a fall at his home two days earlier. He was 89.
For more than 40 years, Gabler and his wife, Norma, pored over textbook publishers’ offerings looking for factual errors and examples of what they deemed liberal bias.
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