Hereabouts, we call it “weather-weather.” Elsewhere, it is called the inevitable pendulum swing or regression towards the mean. That worldwide and eternal phenomenon now applies to textbooks. Before ...

As a recent college graduate in the early 1990s, with fewer books under my belt than many of my students and almost no developed competencies in teaching, I landed one of the most coveted teaching ...

The beauty of knowledge and science is its evolution. The more scientific work progresses, the more refined our knowledge becomes. Our understanding of astrophysics, chemistry or geology is constantly ...

Q. Do schools really need to buy textbooks so often and if so, why does it help? Why can’t we just do online books now and save money that way? A. When you look at the series of books different school ...

Most of my memories from middle and high school math involve using a textbook: “Turn to page 237 and complete problems 2-20 even.” This was not a particularly engaging or empowering way for me to ...

Teaching Beyond Textbooks, a Santa Barbara-based nonprofit, is hosting its inaugural Summer Institute at Montecito Union School on August 9. Teaching Beyond Textbooks was founded last year by Jennifer ...

Technology plays a minor role in transforming teachers and our educators need support In recent years innovation in technology has compressed the world into a pocket-sized edition with everything at ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly attributed statements made by Trace Urdan, a San Francisco-based investment analyst at Signal Hill Capital Management LLC, to Karen Billings, ...

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from ...

Here’s a statement with which everyone can agree: College instructors cannot assume that students come to their classes in possession of basic knowledge. Now here’s one sure to generate some ...