Showing posts with label textbooks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label textbooks. Show all posts

Monday, March 21, 2011

Bring Back Textbooks

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.