Often school district curriculum manuals sat on shelves collecting dust. Renewed from time to time, they kept company with the state curriculum manuals. A form of old accountability and consistency ...

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 ...

The beauty of knowledge and science is its evolution. The more scientific work progresses, the more refined our knowledge becomes. Our understanding of astrophysics, chemistry or geology is constantly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Q. Do schools really need to buy textbooks so often and if so, why does it help? Why can’t we just do online books now and save money that way? A. When you look at the series of books different school ...

Open Educational Resources (OER) are educational materials that are in the public domain or introduced with an open license. The nature of these open materials means that anyone can legally and freely ...

The new question-of-the-week is: What advice would you offer to textbook publishers? There are some pretty terrible textbooks out there. In fact, I’ve published a popular post titled The Best ...