textbooks

Saw this homeschool biology text referred to on Freep so I looked it up. http://www.highschoolscience.com/store/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=4 Make sure you check out the sample module. It's filled with awful.

NPR reports this morning that a small university in Southern Missouri has decided to go textbook-free. All students are issued a laptop on admittance, and textbooks are downloaded in e-book form. Students are free to cut & paste, share notes, network, etc. The e-books cost about half as...

While reading the Expelled blog I came across a link to The Textbook Accuracy Society. Apparently they on have found a few sections in 4 biology textbooks that warrented scrutiny. Also apparent is that they don't really have any arguments other than the usual incredulity and obfuscation. If...

Okay, I'm teaching math for elementary school teachers. The text is explaining how to solve for :) in a ratio such as: :)/24 = 8/16. (I'm not using x, because it looks just like a multiplication sign.) According to the text, one must cross-multiply; that is, multiply the left numerator by the...

I'm doing the home schooling for history for Kitten2. While we are doing a lot of trips, I'd like a simple textbook to use. A lot of the places on line cater to the fundies, I can't believe there are even science books that somehow teach the Bible version of events. Anyway, no way am I buying...

I wasn't sure whether to put this story in the History, Politics, or religion section. I chose Religion because it seems to be the thrust of the legislation. I just saw a story on this on the local TV news (WTMJ 4 in Milwaukee). It seem one of our local right-wing state senators wants to...

Does anyone have advice on finding and purchasing reliable textbooks? By reliable I mean error free.

So, I was listening to a creationist on the radio today, and he claimed that science books all around the country are perpetuating the myth of gill slits. He claims it false that during human embryo development, that the embryo has gill slits. I do remember reading this as a youth. He claims...

I don't think these are quite serious, but it does suggest how bad the educational system in the USA is at the present time. http://www.swarthmore.edu/NatSci/cpurrin1/textbookdisclaimers/ I wouldn't be surprised if someplace or other settled on these.

As reported in the Atlanta-Journal Constitution: The full article can be read here: http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/0104/30evolution.html Very depressing news. -Monkey Boy

I was writing homework solutions this evening for a class that I'm TAing for, and one of the problems mentioned a Rolex watch by name. It went something like, "An astronaut traveling in a spaceship going .9c is wearing a Rolex watch. If his colleagues on Earth measure his transit time to be...

In California, it is politically incorrect to use the term "founding fathers" because even though it is historically accurate that the founding fathers were a bunch of old white guys, school children must now be stripped of their American cultural heritage. "Founding fathers" are not really...