November 10, 2014
Textbook authors seek collaborators who have expertise in genetics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology.
March 27, 2012
The anthologies used in many freshman composition courses tell students what to think, not how to write.
September 22, 2011
William Young discusses the mainstreaming of Marxist ideas in the K-12 educational curriculum.
September 2, 2011
The higher education bubble was inflated by various pumps and gases: expensive but useless degrees, an ideological straitjacket, grade inflation, administrative bloat, and proliferating progra......
July 25, 2011
Over at The Beacon, I have a post on the latest requirement that Something Else must be taught in K-12 history textbooks. This time it is gay history but the real problem is the politicization of te......
July 25, 2011
What's driving up the cost of textbooks, and what are the cheaper alternatives?
September 1, 2010
Over at Pajamasmedia, “Zombie” is in the midst of a five part analysis of the Texas textbook battle. In The Language Police (2004), Diane Ravitch argued that to avoid offen......
August 26, 2010
The first comic book textbook combines management jargon and theories and packages them into a story about a slacker student's attempt to become an entrepreneur.
August 2, 2010
In 2009, I blogged on the budding movement for open-source and commercially free textbooks coming on the market. The latter vendors often hope to make money by charging for the printing of online te......
