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About 3 years ago, Indiana became one of the first states to allow schools to take taxpayer money earmarked for textbooks and use it on digital technology.
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Instead of the current huge prices for such textbooks, lower those prices to drive the Nook into that marketplace.
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Meanwhile, schools and colleges have used money originally set aside for paper textbooks to buy tablets, e-books and apps.
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In the 1970s, Brothers called for changing textbooks to remove sexist bias, noting that nonsexist cultures tend to be less warlike.
But iBooks needs to work out a few kinks before it can be used as a full replacement for physical textbooks.
For micro-organisms, after all, evolution is not just a matter for the textbooks, but the only way to fight back against hostile thermostats and molecules, to say nothing of virologists.
Unfortunately for the textbooks, the latest estimate, made by Yvonne Stokes of the University of Adelaide, and which will be reported in the Proceedings of the Royal Society next month, is that it would take over 10m years for a window pane to flow perceptibly.
Still, his passion for teaching -- as a child, he would ask for blackboards and teacher's editions of textbooks for birthdays -- paid off.
For it will most certainly mean lower prices on college textbooks for college students.
It will buy textbooks for 16, 000 primary schools in the key subjects of Kiswahili, English, Maths and Science.
The top online rental company offers students both new and used textbooks for anywhere from 25% to 80% off the retail purchasing price.
Mr Brown also pledged to provide textbooks for schoolchildren in the border areas and support 300, 000 girls from poor families attending secondary school.
"There was a whole community of doubters looking at their textbooks for inspiration, or perhaps I should say for lack of inspiration, and saying it couldn't be done, " says Friend.
The technology, he argues, could enable universities and other institutions to simply skip purchasing textbooks altogether and simply hire people to write textbooks for them, geared specifically to their own needs.
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In another demo, Apple's Roger Rosner showed off textbooks for the iPad that allow students to zoom in on pictures of cells, dissect digital frogs and make notes and highlights on the e-book pages.
Upon request of the Ministry of Education, UNESCO Iraq Office has completed the assessment of math and science textbooks for grades 4, 8 and 11, according to the international standards and using content analysis approach.
The dissemination of didactic materials through the PNLA. Literacy textbooks for youth and adult literacy learners are produced and, if recommended by specialist consultants, sent to state and municipal literacy centres and schools so that they can be distributed to all learners currently enrolled in literacy courses.
It's wrong to believe that these struggles ended and are reserved now for history lessons and textbooks.
Sometimes everything changes at lunchtime, with one group's students, teachers and textbooks swapped for those of a different group.
The consumer interest is and should be paramount: if that means lower profits for publishers of college textbooks so be it.
It uses pattern recognition software to search for information in paediatric textbooks.
It half-heartedly pressed Riyadh for copies of the textbooks actually used at the Academy, then withheld from the USCIRF the books it did receive.
This has been applied even in the most minor cases, such as lending secular textbooks or reimbursement for state tests.
In Afghanistan, for example, we shipped literacy textbooks on the backs of donkeys through remote provinces.
On the other hand, there are definitely schools in poor neighbourhoods that are struggling just to get proper textbooks (while praying for inspiring teachers).
Digital textbooks can expand opportunity for kids everywhere, he says.
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She cites rewritten textbooks, public expressions of contempt for anti-Semitism and quicker handling of restitution claims.
The NCAA sanctioned the program twice under his watch, once in 2002 for giving cash to recruits and again in 2009 for a scandal involving the distribution of student textbooks in 2005.
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