Saturday, July 31, 2010

Google Alert - textbooks

News10 new results for textbooks
Textbook law aims to help students
Berkshire Eagle
By Jenn SmithBerkshire Eagle Staff PITTSFIELD -- As students prepare to head to college this fall, a new federal law aims to make buying college textbooks ...
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Room for Debate: A Running Commentary on the News
New York Times
New rules are aimed at protecting students from textbook sticker shock. Will they make a difference? This forum on the soaring cost of college textbooks ...
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'We have a textbook case of bad education system'
Daily News & Analysis
He feels there is an urgent need to add value-based lessons in textbooks at the school and university levels. Addressing the first batch of students ...
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$200 textbook vs. free -- you do the math
Hamilton Spectator
McNealy, the fiery co-founder and former chief executive of Sun Microsystems, shuns basic math textbooks as bloated monstrosities: their price keeps rising ...
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College Students Across the U.S. Are Rewarded When They Rent Textbooks From ...
Bradenton Herald
/PRNewswire/ -- Chegg.com, the number one online textbook rental company, is rewarding college students for renting textbooks this term with the launch of ...
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Untrained translators make school textbooks a bundle of errors
Times of India
CHENNAI: The new textbooks under Samacheer Kalvi' now have teachers making corrections on printed paper. Sentences are plagued by issues of poor sentence ...
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REILLY: Brave new world of textbooks
Attleboro Sun Chronicle
I can recall when my high school classmates and I would be issued our textbooks. Of course, it took a while to hand out those heavy stone tablets. (Har! ...
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Local colleges to offer textbook rental programs
Corpus Christi Caller Times
The textbook rental program is part of a national effort through partnerships with Barnes and Noble College Booksellers and allows students to rent certain ...
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Commentary : Textbooks and education reform
Inquirer.net
Go says many entries in this textbook are outdated, factually erroneous, the product of "wanton carelessness" and sometimes even "downright silly" and ...
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Bernanke financial disclosure shows no-frills plan
The Associated Press
Bernanke's main source of income aside from his Fed salary is royalties on two textbooks. The form says he collected between $100001 and $1000000 on each of ...
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