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Dump the devices and bring back textbooks
Good, old-fashioned printed textbooks are valuable learning guides.
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 202 min read
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Textbooks are light on Latino history -- except for Sonia Sotomayor
U.S. history textbooks don't include much about Latino Americans, concludes a report by Johns Hopkins Institute for Education Policy and...
Joanne Jacobs
May 23, 20231 min read
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History, civics and reading comprehension go together
The more students know about the world, the better they can understand what they read, writes Susan Pimentel in Education Week. The...
Joanne Jacobs
May 5, 20231 min read
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Why was Rosa Parks told to move to the back of the bus?
Florida is approving new "anti-woke" social studies textbooks, reports Sarah Mervosh in the New York Times. Some publishers think the...
Joanne Jacobs
Mar 17, 20232 min read
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