Articles Camouflaging the Vietnam War: How Textbooks Continue to Keep the Pentagon Papers Secret Bill BigelowJun 20, 2013
Articles Stealing and Selling Nature: Why We Need to Reclaim 'The Commons' in the Curriculum Tim SwinehartNov 16, 2012
Articles Art Teacher Fired After Refusing to Make Students Buy Unnecessary Books An art school instructor refused to go along with his school's shady mandatory e-textbook policy and it looks like it cost him his job.Liz Dwyer18 Aug, 2012
Articles Finally, a Tumblr That Puts Textbook Silliness on Blast The "Thanks, Textbooks" blog is collecting examples of the egregious nonsense that shows up in the books our children are supposed to learn from.Liz Dwyer06 Aug, 2012
Articles A Nonprofit Publisher Puts Another Nail in the $200 Textbook Coffin OpenStax believes its free books can save students millions.Liz Dwyer13 Feb, 2012
Articles Will Apple's iBooks Experiment Lower the Price of College Textbooks? If Apple becomes the iTunes of the digital textbook world, will college students be able to save some cash?Liz Dwyer22 Jan, 2012
Articles Why Digital Textbooks Don't Always Save College Students Cash A two-year study reveals that going digital doesn't always save students money.Liz Dwyer10 Jan, 2012
Articles California Effort Wants to Make College Textbooks Free Could this be the end of $200 textbooks in the Golden State?Liz Dwyer17 Dec, 2011
Articles College Faculty Take the Lead in Developing Open Education Resources The University of Massachusetts gave faculty grants to develop low- or no-cost course materials. Now students are saving thousands of dollars.Liz Dwyer06 Dec, 2011
Articles In Washington State, the End of $200 Textbooks Is Here An online library will make put textbooks for some of the most popular community college courses online.Liz Dwyer05 Nov, 2011
Articles Why Are College Textbooks So Expensive? The national "textbook rebellion" launched last week. So why is your hardback calculus book $200?Liz Dwyer08 Sep, 2011
Articles Could This Amazon App Change the College Textbook Game? A new Amazon app makes comparison shopping for college textbooks as easy as scanning a barcode.Liz Dwyer18 Aug, 2011
Articles Are College Libraries About to Become Bookless? Thanks to the electronic book revolution, in the next decade, we could see the end of centralized campus libraries with hardbound texts.Liz Dwyer13 Jul, 2011
Articles South Korea's Making the Switch to Digital Textbooks No more heavy backpacks. South Korea is investing $2 billion to develop digital textbooks for all schools by 2015.Liz Dwyer08 Jul, 2011
Articles California Puts LGBT People in the History Books California just passed a law mandating that schools teach LGBT history. Will this help the next generation dissolve homophobia?Nona Willis Aronowitz08 Jul, 2011
Articles Your Brain on Shakespeare: How the Bard Makes You Smarter You love Shakespeare's creative use of language. Now new research shows it actually makes your brain grow.Liz Dwyer14 Apr, 2011
Articles "I Was Itching Like a Crackhead": Study Finds College Students Addicted to Media Students across the globe can't function without media for even 24 hours without experiencing addiction-like withdrawal symptoms.Liz Dwyer11 Apr, 2011