As a recent college graduate in the early 1990s, with fewer books under my belt than many of my students and almost no developed competencies in teaching, I landed one of the most coveted teaching ...

Hereabouts, we call it “weather-weather.” Elsewhere, it is called the inevitable pendulum swing or regression towards the mean. That worldwide and eternal phenomenon now applies to textbooks. Before ...

Most of my memories from middle and high school math involve using a textbook: “Turn to page 237 and complete problems 2-20 even.” This was not a particularly engaging or empowering way for me to ...

As college-bound members of the high school class of 2008 look ahead to fall, some can also look forward to textbook sticker shock: New required textbooks can cost as much as $125, and some are not ...

Teaching Beyond Textbooks, a Santa Barbara-based nonprofit, is hosting its inaugural Summer Institute at Montecito Union School on August 9. Teaching Beyond Textbooks was founded last year by Jennifer ...

Technology plays a minor role in transforming teachers and our educators need support In recent years innovation in technology has compressed the world into a pocket-sized edition with everything at ...

A 2011 law requires LGBT history for California students, but LGBT rights groups say the teaching materials are nothing to be proud of. California became the first state in 2011 to require that K-12 ...

The next day, Strode showed his students—all seniors—their aggregated results. On some questions, the students were mostly in agreement. More than 80 percent of them, for example, correctly marked ...

Here’s a statement with which everyone can agree: College instructors cannot assume that students come to their classes in possession of basic knowledge. Now here’s one sure to generate some ...