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Commercialism in classrooms has become so rampant that last week a California education committee voted to restrict the use of brand names in taxpayer-funded textbooks. Parents were upset about a McGraw-Hill math textbook that is filled with references to products like Volkswagen automobiles, Jif peanut butter and Beanie Babies. McGraw-Hill representatives point out that the company receives no compensation for mentioning the products, which are used simply to get kids' attention. "The practice of using real-life examples is a technique that's been around for 12 to 15 years," says Roger Rogalin, president of the publishing...
Critics say Cambridge's committee members have resisted the push away from micromanagement. Meetings have focused on textbook distribution at schools, school bus complaints and other day-to-day details of educational life...
...such a simple shift of perspective, Godel wrought deep magic. The Godelian trick is to imagine studying what might be called "Martian-producible numbers" (those numbers that are in fact theorems in the Martian textbooks), and to ask questions such as, "Is or is not the number 8030974 Martian-producible (M.P., for short)?" This question means, Will the statement '8030974' ever turn up in a Martian textbook...
...well-documented theory is on trial again. Some in the scientific community are so disturbed by what they see as an erosion of science education that they are launching a campaign to defend the teaching of evolution. Backed by the National Center for Science Education, two dozen science textbook authors, including Bruce Alberts, the president of the National Academy of Sciences, issued a joint statement on Friday decrying the religious and political pressure that has intimidated school boards and publishers around the country into choosing the most watered-down textbooks on evolution. ?This is an issue with a three-generation...
...explained the teaching style that has madehim famous among students. Rather thanregurgitating the textbook during lectures, Mazurmakes the students read relevant passages beforelecture...