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Based on legislation signed into law this week by California’s governor Jerry Brown, the state is taking the first steps toward becoming a major player in the textbook industry. And maybe changing it completely. The new legislation encompasses two bills: One, a proposal for the state to fund 50 open-source digital textbooks, targeted to lower-division […]
Digital textbooks are all the rage these days. They’ll save schools billions of dollars, and relieve kids from the burden of carrying around the paper versions. More than a few education “experts” have applied the “revolutionary” tag to the concept. And on that very subject, the US Department of Education and the Federal Communications Commission […]
In a recent post on his Class Struggle blog, Jay Mathews explains why textbooks don’t work and hurt schools. His conclusions are based on a new book called “Tyranny of the Textbook” that discusses “why the $4 billion-a-year textbook business is so much a part of our schools’ mediocre performance”. Textbooks don’t work well. Research […]
The Washington Post writes glowingly about an initiative here in the overly-large school district to provide online textbooks for students in middle and high school social studies classes. A few details the article fails to mention: The digital books may be cheaper than the paper versions but the publishers are still requiring the system to […]
Jay Mathews is waxing nostalgic over textbooks and tries to make the case that, not only are they important to a good education, but that they are making a comeback. To support the argument, he brings in an expert (meaning someone who wrote a book Mathews has read and agrees with) who says “the educational […]
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