Educational Research Analysts is an organization based in Longview, Texas, United States, founded by Mel and Norma Gabler to monitor public school textbooks.
They launched the organization in 1961 from their kitchen table in tiny Hawkins in Wood County in east Texas, after having begun to review textbooks assigned to their son.
Many of the books that the Gablers have given high ratings have been adopted by the Texas State Textbook Committee.
[citation needed] If a school district wishes textbooks with other viewpoints than those approved by the state committee, it must fund such materials from its own resources.
[citation needed] Teachers, professors, parents, and civil libertarians have alleged that the Gablers promoted their fundamentalist views in the textbook selection process.