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Some challenge specific parts of the curriculum (mandatory AIDS education, New York City's distribution of condoms to schoolchildren without the knowledge or consent of the parents, textbooks that propagate anti-Christian doctrines, gym - class dress requirements at odds with the modest dress required of Hindu, Muslim, and other children, «values clarification» classes that teach that there is no objective source of right and wrong, and so forth).

In describing and accounting for the lives of the Religious Right, which we define simply as religious conservatives with a considerable involvement in political activity, the book and the series tell the story primarily by focusing on leading episodes in the movement's history, including, but not limited to, the groundwork laid by Billy Graham in his relationships with presidents and other prominent political leaders; the resistance of evangelical and other Protestants to the candidacy of the Roman Catholic John F. Kennedy; the rise of what has been called the New Right out of the ashes of Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964; a battle over sex education in Anaheim, California, in the mid-1960's; a prolonged cultural war over textbooks in West Virginia in the early 1970's — and that is a battle that has been fought less violently in community after community all over the country; the thrill conservative Christians felt over the election of a «born - again» Christian to the Presidency in 1976 and the subsequent disappointment they experienced when they found out that Jimmy Carter was, of all things, a Democrat; the rise of the Moral Majority and its infatuation with Ronald Reagan; the difficulty the Religious Right has had in dealing with abortion, homosexuality and AIDS; Pat Robertson's bid for the presidency and his subsequent launching of the Christian Coalition; efforts by Dr. James Dobson and Gary Bauer to win a «civil war of values» by changing the culture at a deeper level than is represented by winning elections; and, finally, by addressing crucial questions about the appropriate relationship between religion and politics or, as we usually put it, between church and state.

When I took early childhood education classes at my local community college, one of the required textbooks was called, «How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk» by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish.

Sharon Lynch, a science education researcher at George Washington University, says e-books such as these may eventually become mainstream but adds that research needs to be done on whether or not they are actually better than traditional textbooks.

Dad was a chemistry professor at Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, then Oxford College in Minnesota, and a very active member of the American Chemical Society education committee, where he sat on the committee with Linus Pauling, who had authored a very phenomenally important textbook of chemistry.

They have written on passion and on managing career advice overload for Inside Higher Education, co-written a textbook chapter, taught multiple sector - specific courses, consulted on diversity issues at companies and organizations throughout the country, and held numerous counseling and program development positions in their over 20 years of professional experience.

Alex is Editorial Director at the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, where he is involved in producing books ranging from textbooks for undergraduate and graduate education, to laboratory manuals and books on the history of science.

A Beka, which sees itself as building «the content of every textbook on the foundation of God's Word,» states that it does not «paraphrase progressive education textbooks and add biblical principles,» but rather does «primary research in every subject and looks at the subject from God's point of view.»

And across the country, textbook sales representatives are plying their wares at education conferences and...

The teachers then walked out anyway, on behalf of an agenda that included, depending on who was talking, more funds for textbooks, non-teaching staff, and salaries; changes in Oklahoma's capital gains tax rate; other changes in the tax code; new hires at the State Department of Education, and more.

John Warriner, author of one of the most widely used English textbooks in American education, died last month at the age of 80.

And lest you think this is a New York - only problem, Morgan Polikoff, assistant professor of education at the University of Southern California, recently filed over three thousand Freedom of Information Act requests simply to find out what textbooks are being used by school districts in four states: Illinois, Florida, New York, and Texas

The debate over what Apple's electronic textbooks will mean for our formal education system comes at a time when we have not yet determined what tablet technology and the availability of electronic books (or «e-books») can mean for children's learning at home and other informal learning environments.

As with textbooks and other material, teachers need to critically assess how digital games address the learning objective while reinforcing the learning skills they need to understand the concept, according to David Dockterman, chief architect of learning sciences at Scholastic Education and a lecturer at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

At the same conference, Gibb also cited research from the UK education expert Tim Oates, who argues that textbooks, not teachers, are responsible for England's declining education standards.

Parents could then use their ESA to pay for tuition at a private school, to take individual public school or public charter school courses, to pay for special education services and therapies, to purchase textbooks and curricula, to pay for online classes, and to otherwise craft a tailor - made educational experience or their child.

In one study soon to be published in an education policy textbook co-edited with Carol Mullen, Education Policy Perils: Tackling the Tough Issues, I report on a study in which I predicted the percentage of students in grade 5, at the district level, who scored proficient or above on New Jersey's former standardized tests, NJASK, in mathematics language arts for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 school years for the almost 400 school districts that met the sampling criteria to be included in teducation policy textbook co-edited with Carol Mullen, Education Policy Perils: Tackling the Tough Issues, I report on a study in which I predicted the percentage of students in grade 5, at the district level, who scored proficient or above on New Jersey's former standardized tests, NJASK, in mathematics language arts for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 school years for the almost 400 school districts that met the sampling criteria to be included in tEducation Policy Perils: Tackling the Tough Issues, I report on a study in which I predicted the percentage of students in grade 5, at the district level, who scored proficient or above on New Jersey's former standardized tests, NJASK, in mathematics language arts for the 2010, 2011, and 2012 school years for the almost 400 school districts that met the sampling criteria to be included in the study.

«What we don't want to do is simply put a tablet on top of a textbook and call the job done,» said Phillip Lovell, vice president for policy and advocacy at the Alliance for Excellent Education, an advocacy organization that supported increased funding for E-rate.

With the help of domestic and international teacher education experts, National Council on Teacher Quality takes an in - depth look at admission standards, course syllabi, textbooks, course requirements, student teaching manuals, and graduate surveys, among other sources to score various elementary and secondary teaching courses.

Looking more closely at the passage above and comparing it to the content of the National Science Education Standards (NSES)(National Research Council, 1996) shows that a single paragraph from the most commonly used high school biology textbook in the United States includes at least six scientific terms (eukaryotic, chromosome, prokaryote, chromatin, histone, and nucleosome) that are, unlike DNA and protein, not included in the NSES.

Also recalling a memorable conversation with her over coffee at an annual American Educational Research Association (AERA) conference during which he encouraged her to write a multicultural education textbook, Jim describes Sonia's initial hesitation and insistence that another book in addition to his own was not needed in the field at the time.

The schools minister announced the plan in a speech at the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME) conference stating that maths was enjoying a «renaissance» in England and would be given «positive momentum with thousands more young people having access to specialist teachers and quality textbooks».

As Yoshiyuki Oshita, chief director of the center for art policy and management at Mitsubishi UFJ Research and Consulting, puts it: «There are movements to incorporate more IT into education, including textbooks.

Jones also spoke to GoodeReader about the possible reasons why digital textbooks have seen a greater adoption at the higher education level than in the public schools, namely that in those arenas that students are accustomed to paying for content, as well as the fact that they see the means to an end in this kind of investment towards their degrees and ultimately their careers.

«The key factors which we see impacting on the digital textbook market and the educational publishing sector as a whole are the increasing speed of the move to digital as efficacy studies and technological advances enable take - up of suitable devices and solutions,» said Kate Worlock, Lead Analyst for Education & Training at information analytics firm Outsell.

Where better to show off such an app, which could include upgrades for interactive textbooks, than at this education event?

Digital textbook companies like CourseSmart and Kno recently launched innovative, interactive dashboards that help increase student learning outcomes by providing valuable feedback on how students engage with course material, but McGraw - Hill High Education announced today that its launch of such a dashboard is aimed at a very specific demographic of students.SCOREboard, the latest McGraw - Hill platform, is the first of its kind learning tool that helps students prepare for Advanced Placement courses and exams.

Digital, Rental and Used Textbooks Provide Savings of 25 to 75 New York, New York — August 15, 2011 — As financially strapped higher education students head back to campus for the new school year, many will find dramatic savings and great convenience at their Barnes & Noble College campus bookstores.

Selling and renting textbooks is the second stage of Google Play for Education, which was originally announced at the I / O conference earlier in the year.

Barnes & Noble has always worked to democratize books and reading and our approach was designed to deliver textbooks in a variety of formats and provide options that help lessen the financial impact on students in their quest for an education,» said Jade Roth, vice president of books and digital strategy at Barnes & Noble.

While the concept of digital textbooks at the higher education level became a widespread topic of discussion in the past couple of years, new movements in digital publishing have made digital textbooks a more viable option in even public education.

GoodeReader reported on digital textbook publisher CourseSmart's involvement in a multi-year study by STEPP (STudent Erent Pilot Project) on how the rental of digital textbooks are affecting learning outcomes at the higher education level, with a special focus on providing easier and more cost effective accessibility... [Read more...]

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«Enabling student access to digital textbooks continues to be a priority for OverDrive,» said Don Fabricant, Chief Sales Officer and General Manager for Education at OverDrive.

NOOKstudy is a free application for PC and Mac computers developed for the higher education market that gives students easy access to eTextbooks, syllabi, lecture notes, etc., with features like being able to add notes, highlight, search, zoom, and have multiple textbooks and pages open at the same time.

2) I suspect (and this is a bit of a pet theory of mine) that Apple stays in the ebook space primarily to disrupt the educational textbook market (I think that iBooks Author + iTunesU + «cheap» iPad 2s = a strategy for fostering disruption in education at the grass - roots level); their presence in trade publishing is relatively incidental (this may have not been so at the start — I also suspect that launching iBooks along with iPad was initially a hedge against uncertainty about user adoption and viable use cases for the iPad.

This infographic made by Online Universities takes a look at the increasing role of digital textbooks in education.

Education can provide upward mobility and a comfortable life for your children, but at ten of thousands of dollars a year, your kids» tuition (as well as room and board, textbooks and all the other costs of college) is often one of the biggest expenses of your adult life.

The textbooks produced by Stanford Law School's Afghanistan Legal Education Project (ALEP), which are taught at the American University of Afghanistan (AUAF), are lauded for their quality.

Apple's video ad for this system --» Apple in Education,» because the system is aimed ostensibly at writers of textbooks — gives you a decent sense of what's possible, once you get past the somewhat saccharine and trite testimonials about teaching.

Educational publishing, especially in large print runs is always at mercy of Ministries of Education, school boards and textbook selectors.

Education can provide upward mobility and a comfortable life for your children, but at ten of thousands of dollars a year, your kids» tuition (as well as room and board, textbooks and all the other costs of college) is often one of the biggest expenses of your adult life.

For a «small, demure event,» Apple announced a shocking amount of new stuff at today's Education Event: a new version of iBooks with e-textbook support, iTunes U's new virtual classroom app, iBook Author (which should revolutionize home publishing) and even several incredible, interactive textbooks.

At Apple's last education event back in 2012, the company showed off iBooks 2 and a new iBooks Author app focused on textbook creation.

Our distance education program allows you to learn at home at your own pace, with both well illustrated textbooks and simple, engaging online elements.