Jay Mathews
"Bring back textbooks"Washington Post
March 15, 2011
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/class-struggle/post/bring_back_textbooks/2011/03/15/ABr153Z_blog.html?wprss=rss_education
Topic: Textbooks and their use
We have heard a lot about how useless textbooks are and not much about their usefulness. Here is an article which makes the case for textbooks.
Key Points: Textbooks may be bland and written to support a certain point of view however, the point of this article is that students benefit from working through this unique type of text.
Relevance: Textbooks are one tool of the educational trade. How and when they should be used is something that is important to consider.