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To: ThePatriotsFlag

Unfortuntely, many don’t use textbooks anymore.


3 posted on 04/05/2019 7:04:27 AM PDT by fuente (Liberty resides in three boxes: the ballot box, the jury box and the cartridge box--Fredrick Douglas)
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To: fuente
Unfortunately, many don’t use textbooks anymore.

You absolutely correct and it's shocking. America is not educating its children as the system is broken.

4 posted on 04/05/2019 8:30:49 AM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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Unfortuntely, many don’t use textbooks anymore.

You absolutely correct and it's shocking. America is not educating its children as the system is broken.

Teachers don't know how to use textbooks. They weren't taught this essential skill in their "education" classes, and they weren't taught to use them by their own teachers growing up.

Worst of all, those same teachers assign readings on online textbooks, which, especially for history, are useless.

This all begs the question: why do textbooks persist? I have to explain this to students, as it finally makes sense to them when they understand it: student textbooks are just a small part of a curriculum delivered to schools, which more largely consists of prepared lessons, digital tools for teacher use in the classroom, pacing, student assignments, and, above all, assessments.

Once kids figure out that the assessments come from the textbook, suddenly textbooks become useful.
9 posted on 04/06/2019 4:08:12 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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