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A New Approach to Teaching Science

Posted by timothy on from the most-textbooks-don't-merit-burning dept.

Gallenod writes "The Washington Post has an article on Joy Hakim, an author trying to re-write junior-high science textbooks to make them more readable. There are some interesting observations on how traditional textbook publishing houses control pretty much everything children read in school and her difficulties in challenging the status quo. However, she's already succeeded with an award-winning history textbook series, so maybe she'll rack up another win here."

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  1. SCHOOL IS A PRISON by carger314 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    DISCLAIMER: I'm A Junior High School Student
    (A Fourteen Year Old Reading Slashdot? Yes. ;)

    COMPARE SCHOOLS TO YOUR LOCAL PRISON:

    OVERCROWDED

    SADISTIC WARDENS AND ADMINISTRATION

    CONFINED TO ONE AREA AND ONE ROUTINE

    BLAND LUNCH ;)

    It's no matter why my peers and I are so dumb, were in fscking prison!

    --
    The price of a memory is the memory of the sorrow it brings.