Word: textbook
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Florida has contracted with ABC News and National Geographic to develop multimedia programs on subjects ranging from the environment to the cold war. This fall more than 500,000 Texas schoolchildren began using a videodisc series, Optical Data Corp.'s Windows on Science, in lieu of a standard textbook, as their first formal introduction to science. William Clark, president of Optical Data, argues that the multimedia approach may be necessary to reach children raised on Sesame Street and MTV. Says he: "We have to teach a literacy appropriate to the times we live...
Besides being a textbook case of political co-optation, Bush's program highlights the importance of foreign affairs in elections. In 1988 "about 22% of voters cited foreign and defense policy as their primary concerns," says William Galston, who served as Walter Mondale's issues director. "Almost 80% of those people voted for Bush. It was they who provided Bush's margin of victory, and more will probably vote those concerns in '92 as Bush persuades them that the world is still an unstable place...
...were ignorant or incautious. The smart ones had a textbook. It was The Joy of Sex, a 1972 how-to "gourmet guide," written in breezy language by British physician Alex Comfort, who persuaded his readers that with a little imagination and a sense of adventure, lovemaking could be more fun than sex. Comfort was widely derided as a flaky guru who took the mystery out of sex by describing it with the exactitude of a cookbook recipe. But he had it right: The Joy of Sex, witty, fanciful and mercifully free of moralizing, sold more than 8 million copies...
...provide. The University of Virginia English professor listed 4,600 items, ranging from the electron to the Emancipation Proclamation, that every educated adult should be able to identify. Now Hirsch is taking his program of core knowledge to the elementary-school level. In the first two of a six-textbook series for Grades 1 through 6, he boldly proposes the things tots ought to learn...
...Rourke, one of America's funniest writers and potentate of gonzo journalism, tried to find how the U.S. government works. His not-so-startling conclusion: it doesn't. Yet O'Rourke, an unabashed conservative with libertarian leanings, tells you why government is a flop in a way no civics textbook ever could. "I'm not sure I learned anything," he writes, "except that giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys...