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Teachers And Textbooks Are In Short….

October 09, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: Texbooks, Uncategorized

supply in the New Orleans area as they are still trying to get things back to normal in the area,

In The Washington D.C. Area….

August 25, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: Texbooks, Uncategorized

parts of science and social studies standards will not get implemented right away due to not having the proper textbooks on time.

New Textbooks In The Country….

August 23, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: Texbooks, Uncategorized

of Mexico are going to have a chapter about sex in them.  Church officials say this is going to promote sex. Some governors are going to have editied copies of the text for students.

Civic groups and the country’s main parents’ association do not think this is a problem though.

Two Articles On College Textbooks….

August 17, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: College, Texbooks, Uncategorized

are at the USAToday website.

Article one is on what states are doing to try to lower the cost of textbook prices.

The second one is on what colleges, students, and publishers are doing to lower the cost of text books.

CNN.com Has An Article….

August 17, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: Texbooks, Uncategorized

up on science books and what could happen if we move to 12 planets. The article states that it could be up to seven years before some schools change 2006 textbooks so that info on all twelve planets are included.

I think we are going to have to have the textbook manufactures produce a free update to give to teachers so any new information is not missed.

College Textbooks For Free…..

August 16, 2006 By: richard.ginn Category: College, Texbooks, Uncategorized

That is what the Freeload Press company is going to do. All you have to do is fill out a five-minute survey and then you can download a .pdf file of the textboook. These Textbooks will come with ads though.

I say this is a great idea.  I just skimmed through a textbook with some ads in it and it did not look that bad at all.