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Friday, September 19, 2008
Fed up with textbooks
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
I got an email from a middle school teacher in North Georgia frustrated with the textbooks her school bought.
Half the textbooks don’t have all the information she needs, the teacher wrote. So she and other teachers must spend hours finding other materials to supplement their lessons.
This teacher is also the parent of a high school sophomore. She tries to help with his homework, but his textbooks are too confusing. They’ve gone to the publishers’ Web sites for help but more often than not they rely on Google to find their answers.
Is there a way to get around textbooks? Can schools find other materials that will be easier for teachers, students and parents to use and understand?
