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Slow Sell, or, Why Professors Matter

Amy Hungerford | Posted 10.27.2009 | Books

Read More: University, Literature, Book Marketing, Professors, Textbooks, Yale University, Jonathan Lethem, David Mitchell, Reading, Elizabeth Strout, Motherless Brooklyn, Black Swan Green, Books News
Amy Hungerford

The slow sell can't be done pre-publication. It requires -- wait for it -- reading. My last week's reading is a case in point: I read David Mitchell's Black Swan Green.

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Digital Textbooks, Real Gains for Education

Lisa Petrides | Posted 07.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: K-12 Education, Education, California, Open Source Education, Open Education, Free Textbooks, Disruptive Technology, Open Source, Textbooks, Innovation, Open Education Resources, Teachers, Students, Digital Textbooks, Open Education Movement, Iskme, Oer, Politics News
Lisa Petrides

Governor Schwarzenegger has a plan to make California the first state in the nation to provide its schools with free digital textbooks.

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Armageddon Friday

Bill Allen | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Ayatollah, Textbooks, Intelligent Design, Education, Creationism, Science, Texas Board of Education, Religious Right, Texas, Schools, Science Education, Darwin, Evolution, Taxes, Intelligent-Design, Texas Schools Creationism, Intelligent Design in Textbooks, Religion in Schools, Intelligent Design in Schools, Politics News
Bill Allen

The religious right in Texas -- in a move that any ayatollah in Iran would be proud to claim -- is dangerously close to substituting religious dogma for science.

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Promoting the Pornography of Creationism

Bill Allen | Posted 03.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Religion, Theory of Evolution, Intelligent Design, Education, Anti-Intellectualism, Textbook Adoption, Life on Earth, Biology, Texas, Steven Weinberg, Darwin, California, Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, Textbook Publishers, Textbooks, Creationism, Students, Institute for Creation Research, Online Education, Creation Science, Texas State Board of Education, Anti-Science, Evolution, Politics News
Bill Allen

I proposed in jest the idea of an online degree in "creationism." I never imagined that anyone could seriously put forward such an outlandish idea. Boy, was I ever wrong.

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Standardized Testing Alternative

Robert Rose | Posted 03.04.2009 | Politics

Read More: College Students, Education, Textbooks, Standardized Testing, Teachers, Parenting, Education Reform, Schools, Teaching, Students, Learning, Parents, Politics News
Robert Rose

No student, class, teacher, school, or district should be evaluated on the basis on any one test, especially one with the unreliability of so-called Standardized Tests.

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Claims of Bias in Palestinian Textbooks: The Other Side of the Story

Jillian York | Posted 01.19.2009 | World

Read More: Palestinian Media Watch, Itamar Marcus, West Bank, Al Khader, Harold Evans, Palestine, Center for Monitoring the Impact of Peace, Bethlehem, Palestinian Authority, Textbooks, Israel, Hillary Clinton, Palestinian Textbooks, Efrat, Efrata, Cmip, World News
Jillian York

An article by Harold Evans today purports that Palestinian children are being taught the values of martyrdom and war in school. The author and the sources he quotes are deeply biased.

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Green Business: Saving Money Vs. Making Money

GreenBiz | Matt Alderton | Posted 09.25.2008 | Green

Read More: College Students, Aayush Phumbhra, Osman Rashid, College Students Money, College Students Loan, Green News, Green, Textbooks, Sustainability, chegg.com, Iowa State University, University of Minnesota, Green News

When University of Minnesota graduate Osman Rashid and Iowa State University graduate Aayush Phumbhra decided to start a business, their objective was...

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