Electronic textbook invades California classroom, good or bad move? - Thinkerr's Fun Blog
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Gov. Schwarzenegger wants California's schools to adopt digital textbooks
Kids spend a lot of time on the Internet — listening to music, watching videos and researching schoolwork.
So why, asks Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, are students still lugging around expensive textbooks?
Schwarzenegger's "digital textbook initiative" calls for California's 6.2 million public school students to move away from hard-bound chemistry and calculus books and embrace texts in electronic form.
Schwarzenegger is pitching digital textbooks as a way for cash-strapped school districts to save money, saying that traditional hard-bound books are expensive. The state budget for textbooks and instructional materials is $350 million; in San Jose Unified, a single Algebra I textbook for 9th graders costs the district $64.77.
Read more at the Mercury News
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
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