You might remember a report from a few years back that decried the poor quality of middle-school science textbooks used across the country.

Full of errors and lacking any coherent sense of the scientific approach, the textbooks attracted the criticism of John Hubisz, visiting faculty member at N.C. State’s Department of Physics.

Hubisz offered an update today to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. He found vast improvement in the quality of current textbooks. In the video clip below, he addresses Roy Cordato’s question about the reason for the change.

3:25 p.m. update: Watch the full 54:09 recording by clicking the play button below.

You’ll find other John Locke Foundation video presentations here.