Apple Launches Textbook App
Apple is hoping to put an end to the days of students weighed down with a backpack full of textbooks. The tech company said it's aiming to change the way students use textbooks with a free app for...
View ArticleBackstory: The Fight over Texas Textbooks
In 2009, religious conservatives launched a campaign in Texas to change how evolution was described in the state’s science textbooks. Director Scott Thurman talks about his documentary, “The...
View ArticleSchool Districts Team Up to Demand Better Textbooks
The city schools chancellor, Dennis M. Walcott, and his team have been beating the drum about the rollout of tougher Common Core standards and the need to get students better prepared for college and...
View ArticleFor Textbooks, Paper Still Trumps Digital
Despite recent advances in digital technology, the nation's schoolchildren will likely be wrapping their textbooks in brown paper for years to come. While one in five Americans have read a book on a...
View ArticleInside Israeli and Palestinian Textbooks
A new study examined Israeli and Palestinian textbooks and found bias, but not dehumanizing language about the conflict. Three experts who worked on the study talk about the findings and the...
View ArticleThe Long Game: Texas' Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom
For more than a half a century, citizens of the Lone Star State have had intense, emotional battles over what children should and shouldn’t be taught in public school classrooms. While there have been...
View ArticleA Textbook-Free College Degree
At hundreds of dollars each, college textbooks are becoming prohibitively expensive. Business administration professor Linda Williams and Ariel Diaz, founder and CEO of Boundless, are working to change...
View ArticleA Textbook-Free College Degree
At hundreds of dollars each, college textbooks are becoming prohibitively expensive. Business administration professor Linda Williams and Ariel Diaz, founder and CEO of Boundless, are working to change...
View ArticleIn American Classrooms, Civil War History Varies by Location
Click on the 'Listen' button above to hear this interview. While the nation as a whole weighs in on the divisions that erupted in Charlottesville, Virginia nearly two weeks ago; school students are...
View ArticleTextbook Politics
Dana Goldstein, education reporter for The New York Times and the author of The Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession (Doubleday, 2014), read thousands of pages of American...
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