Challenge stuff.

• In a squeaker of a school board vote (4-3), Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon has been reinstated to an AP English class at Michigan's Shelby High School.
• And in an unusual story (at least, I haven't come across anything similar), a new math book has caused an uproar in Frederick County, Maryland.  (To be honest, it does sound REALLY lame.  But I don't know anything about it other than what was included in the article.  Which wasn't much.)