Most of us assign textbooks for what we always assumed were good pedagogical reasons: We wanted students to be able to fill in gaps we don’t get to, engage in fact-checking, hear other perspectives, ...

In-person instruction remains the most popular teaching method, but digital and hybrid courses continue to gain traction, according to a recent study.

Open Education promises to turn the textbook production pipeline into a vast dynamic knowledge ecosystem that is in a constant state of creation, use, reuse and improvement.

Schools need to do more than swap out textbooks to improve student achievement, according to researchers who tracked textbook adoptions in six states.

As for teaching and learning in this new age: What if digitized textbooks just make lessons slicker and faster-paced, not better?

Hereabouts, we call it “weather-weather.” Elsewhere, it is called the inevitable pendulum swing or regression towards the mean.

Articles Publish at May 01 2024 Updated May 01 2024 Teaching with obsolete textbooks? The disadvantage of books compared to online information is not their weight.

My year of teaching environmental science without a textbook In the first class of the 2005-2006 school year, after calling roll and introducing myself and co-professor Terry Bensel, I told our ...

Pembroke Community Middle School Principal Steven Lamarche pointed to the books behind him — there were about 20 on the table — to show that yes, there are textbooks in the middle school. And ...

The way science classes talk about—or gloss over—the science of human difference could risk reinforcing students’ misperceptions.