News tagged with school textbook

Many US schools adding iPads, trimming textbooks

(AP) -- For incoming freshmen at western Connecticut's suburban Brookfield High School, hefting a backpack weighed down with textbooks is about to give way to tapping out notes and flipping electronic pages ...

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Sep 04, 2011 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (6) | comments 14

Recession hits California students at school and at home, report finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- The recession has had a devastating impact on the state's public schools, with major layoffs, budget cuts and homeless students moving in with staff and faculty, according to a new UCLA report.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Jan 22, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

School textbooks have political purpose, finds study

(PhysOrg.com) -- The simple school textbook is used by states to mould loyal citizens, according to a new study.

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Nov 10, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (7) | comments 0

California schoolbooks going digital

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced plans to phase out school textbooks in favor of digital learning aids as the state looks to plug its massive budget hole.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 09, 2009 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (8) | comments 6




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Neanderthal demise due to many influences, including cultural changes: study

As an ice age crept upon them thousands of years ago, Neanderthals and modern human ancestors expanded their territory ranges across Asia and Europe to adapt to the changing environment.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

Gamers on 3-D mission to save world, just don't tell them they are learning cell biology

After growing up on an entertainment diet of X-Men and Xbox, high school and college-age students may find a textbook on cell biology to be a little, well, bland.

Technology / Software

created Feb 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How wings really work

(PhysOrg.com) -- A 1-minute video released by the University of Cambridge sets the record straight on a much misunderstood concept – how wings lift.

Physics / General Physics

created Jan 25, 2012 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (23) | comments 57 | with audio podcast

Analyst: Apple sold more than 350,000 e-textbooks in 3 days

Apple's foray into the e-textbook business started off with a bang, according to a Monday report: The company sold more than 350,000 textbooks through its new version of iBooks in its first three days of availability, an a ...

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created Jan 24, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0

N.Y. teens' mystery illness labeled 'conversion disorder'

It's a term used so rarely that most of us haven't heard of it. Even mental health professionals say they have read about it in textbooks rather than seen it up close.

Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers solve questions about Ethiopians' high-altitude adaptations

Over many generations, people living in the high-altitude regions of the Andes or on the Tibetan Plateau have adapted to life in low-oxygen conditions. Living with such a distinct and powerful selective pressure ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Apple starts selling interactive iPad textbooks (Update)

Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

Technology / Business

created Jan 19, 2012 | popularity 1.8 / 5 (12) | comments 3

Technology, costs, lack of appeal slow e-textbook adoption

Textbooks are often a luxury for college senior Vatell Martin. The accounting major at Virginia State University got by in several courses with study groups and professors' lectures. "It's not that I didn't want to buy," ...

Technology / Other

created Jan 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How successful Chinese entrepreneurs really think

(PhysOrg.com) -- Can you really learn to be an entrepreneur? A new in-depth study offers fresh insights into how successful business players teach themselves to become better and better at making money.

Other Sciences / Economics & Business

created Jan 16, 2012 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Apple to hold media event on education next week

(AP) -- Apple is scheduling a media event in New York next week, but the company isn't saying much about the topic it plans to discuss.

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created Jan 11, 2012 | popularity 1 / 5 (2) | comments 0


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