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...thousands of Japanese soldiers and guerillas died. But an organized rape and massacre of civilians did not happen," Mizushima insisted to TIME. The subject also receives more than its share of official whitewash. In 2005, Japan's Ministry of Education sparked outrage in China by approving a high school textbook that referred to the massacre merely as an "incident...
...also struggled with the homeschooling dynamic. She sometimes fell dangerously behind. Once, she had to do an entire year of math and chemistry labs in one month. Although she was officially enrolled in Cambridge Academy, she had to teach herself everything—reading textbooks for most of her classes and listening to cassette tapes for her Spanish courses. “If you are stuck with like a math question, you couldn’t really go to anyone for help,” Ko says. “You can call your professor up. But maybe he?...
...conversely, when your lab partner turns to you outside Old Quincy C and asks for ID, try not to be belligerent. After all, you may look very different without safety goggles. So when running down to the basement to get laundry, the temptation to use your QR textbook as a doorstop may be overwhelming, but resist! Chances are that your late-night visitor isn’t the cute senior from that party last weekend but instead someone who only loves you for one thing: your iPod. After all, Prince Charming knows to knock...
...council next considered a bill calling for the approval of the Harvard College Book Information System (HCBIS)—a scheme for the collection of textbook ISBN numbers. The bill’s co-sponsor Tom D. Hadfield ’08 identified it as a means of assuring the survival of the Crimson Reading site...
...system would include four data collection strategies: “self-reporting” allowing instructors to add information through an HCBIS account; “bulk upload,” permitting departments to upload textbook information for multiple courses at once; “data mining from syllabi,” requiring the manual input of information from course syllabi; and simple student reporting...