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TEXTBOOKS THAT ARE NEVER OBSOLETE- A SCARY THOUGHT FOR SCHOOL BOOK PUBLISHERS - by Lenny Isenberg,Perdaily.com

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What a great idea! TEXTBOOKS THAT ARE NEVER OBSOLETE- A SCARY THOUGHT FOR SCHOOL BOOK PUBLISHERS -
If iPads were anything more than a billion dollar scam to inappropriately allow Apple or some other technology or textbook company to get their hands on what the voters earmark as school bond construction money, then they might be used for something that would save money in the long run like a Living Textbook and Curricular Materials Program that would easily obviate the necessity and outrageous expense of getting rid of and revising all school textbooks and related materials every 7 years.Not so long ago, when an expensive new textbook came out, the frugal student could find an older and less expensive supposedly obsolete edition to use, which in fact had very few changes from the newer edition. But now textbook publisher use computers to unnecessarily scramble the replacement textbook's
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I began teaching in 1963,; Ba and BS in Education -Brooklyn College. I have the equivalent of 2 additional Master's, mainly in Literacy Studies and Graphic Design. I was the only seventh grade teacher of English from 1990 -1999 at East Side (more...)
 

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