There have been many technological and biological advances in science over the past two decades. Eighth and 10th-graders finally will learn about those changes in their textbooks during the 1994-95 ...
Last year, a provocative study of the 12 most widely used physical science textbooks for middle schools and junior high schools gained renown for demonstrating that all of the books were riddled with ...
MILLCREEK TOWNSHIP, Pa. – Miranda Lyon was in seventh grade when she stumbled on the fateful homework question. Why, the textbook asked, does a person weigh less on a mountaintop than in a mine deep ...
TWIN FALLS • Jacque Salisbury hardly ever asks her students to open their physical science textbooks. She prefers more engaging, hands-on learning. Plus, the middle school books are more than a decade ...
We read with concern the Nov. 20 Insight piece by Pam Winnick, “Is this the equator,” about errors in our textbook, Exploring Physical Science. We believe Sentinel readers would benefit from current, ...
The 30 students in Angelo Rivera`s sophomore physical science class were lounging in groups around the well-manicured athletic fields of Schaumburg High School on a spring day. But they were studying.