Word: textbook
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Coop officials often come under fire for higher textbook prices they say are a result of unpredictable supply and demand due to the late registration date...
According to Evan P. Mooney, textbook department manager of the Coop, the Harvard Square Coop has a return rate that is 30 percent higher than that of other college bookstores...
...sense, textbooks are not conducive to the classes that I teach because I like students to engage in the material themselves and probe the material for their own points of view," says Professor of the History of Science Everett I. Mendelsohn, who has been at Harvard since 1960. "A standardized textbook tends to predigest material...
...have never used a textbook in all the years that I have taught because I don't think that standardized texts are a good way for students to think critically about the past," Kishlansky says...
Tracy Robinson was losing them. The lesson for her fourth-grade class at Cincinnati's Vine Elementary School on this Friday afternoon was fractions, and as she stood at the front of the room with her textbook, explaining why 1/3 is larger than 1/4, she saw blank stares. No hands were raised. She drew shapes on the blackboard, shading in parts of them, but that didn't work either. The kids were wiggling in their seats. "I was getting so nervous," Robinson recalls. "I was feeling like, 'O.K., now what...