| We try to help you choose the best book in each adoption, or at least avoid the worst.  
  The terms "Best/Better/Fair/Poor/Worst" etc, compare books we reviewed 
  relative to each other. We seldom use the term "Good" in our rankings. Often, "Better" means "worse than 
  Good" and "Best" means merely "least bad."
  Sometimes a book labeled "Better," while superior to its competitors in that adoption, may in fact be poor based on our 
  standard review criteria for the subject.  | 
Our standard review criteria let us rank submissions in absolute terms, and ensure consistent 
  textbook comparisons in any one adoption plus a range of distinctions among the individual submissions.  Yet they are works-in-progress, 
  and hopefully expand and improve over time from one adoption to the next. 
  To our knowledge, we are the only Christian conservative group with many such criteria, which are indispensable 
  to having an impact. What might these criteria be? Here are some samples. |