Jane Park has posted on the “illusion of quality” in K-12 textbooks. From the post:
Most teachers do little more than assign reading, only to lecture later on the same reading, and as a result, most students do not retain what they have read, if they have read at all.
There’s also a related article at the LibraryJournal.com by Steven Bell.
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