Where, exactly, is Brazil?
Valerie Merians
A little rusty on your geography? Well, a new geography textbook from Brazil’s Ministry of Education will make you feel better. According to an Associated Press report by Bradley Brooks,… 1 / Read more »
A little rusty on your geography? Well, a new geography textbook from Brazil’s Ministry of Education will make you feel better. According to an Associated Press report by Bradley Brooks,… 1 / Read more »
The prime minister of Japan, Taro Aso, has been coming under fire recently for his seeming inability to, well, read. He’s made so many mistakes reading speeches in his public… Read more »
For the past several months,” one of Canada’s largest publishers of college textbooks, McGraw-Hill Ryerson, “has been quietly trying to coax companies into buying advertising space in their texts,” reports… Read more »
The California Assembly has voted “to ban school districts from purchasing textbooks longer than 200 pages,” according to a Sacramento Bee article by Jim Sanders. The Bee report says Assembly… Read more »
Scholars from Korea, China and Japan have gotten together to publish a “joint history textbook” — an accomplishment that an unattributed commentary in the Korea Times notes is “little short… Read more »
“It’s more than just a war of words on the University of Nebraska-Lincoln campus. It’s a war between entire bookstores.” As an Associated Press wire story by Scott Bauer explains,… Read more »
As previously reported in the MobyLives digest, a recent Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) survey “accuses publishers of driving up students¹ costs by revising textbooks too often, bundling textbooks with expensive… Read more »
A new report from the Public Interest Research Groups and students across the country have “accused publishers of arbitrarily pushing up the cost of textbooks, saying those increases have dramatically… Read more »
“Though the teaching of evolution makes the news when officials propose, as they did in Georgia, that evolution disclaimers be affixed to science textbooks, or that creationism be taught along… Read more »
Republican legislators in Arkansas “want Arkansas’ public school textbooks to define marriage as the union of a man and a woman – just like the recently approved amendment to the… Read more »