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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...
Kishlansky, himself the author of several textbooks, says his own textbook on Western civilization is used within Harvard's history department because professors often decide to use textbooks based on the nature of their course...
...nature of the text given can push students to do their own interpreting on the basis of some of the frameworks developed in lecture or section," Mendelsohn says, adding that although a standardized textbook is probably the best way to teach a class like introductory biology or physics, professors in these classes should provide supplemental materials as well...