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If textbooks are almost all but worthless for students in k- 12, then why do colleges require students to purchase textbooks? And many times, more than one text...
retired Well, college profs can reasonably expect their students to do reading assignments. Oh, and many texts are authored by the prof, so there is a financial incentive for the prof to require the purchase.

I also think the current culture of piling more and more content into every high school course makes teachers abandon texts as teaching tool...See More
Apr 6, 2013
muinteoir I think traditional textbook use is decreasing even at the collegiate level.

My child is a 2011 graduate of a major, tier one research university. Majored in a science. Bought very few texts. Most professors put materials online or sent selected readings to a print shop for purchase. Particularly in the science courses, textbooks were not...See More
Apr 6, 2013
Good point And there are strategies for reading a textbook that we can be teaching middle-school and high-school students so the books don't seem so daunting. Learning to scan all the headings in a chapter first, for example, and to study all the pictures, graphs, or other visual aids BEFORE they start reading the chapter cold, are skills students will find u...See More
Apr 7, 2013


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