launch course smart. it offers subscriptions to more than 7,000 textbooks online. college kids on the go can download the textbooks to their laptops, their ipods, their iphones. we actually ran a study on this and found that those books are not priced to be fair to students. the make textbooks affordable campaign compared used textbooks to e-textbooks. here is what they found. on average students pay $109 for a used textbook. students can then sell that book back for approximately $73. so the total cost of the used textbook is $36. on average, students pay $73 for e-textbooks. e textbooks have expiration date after which they literally disappear that means no money back. what s evolved is called open textbooks. if you click on customize right here. it literally is this easy for you to change this book. tell me about flat world
system and keep professors honest? we asked college students to weigh. in i think it s wrong because, i mean, if there is no need to change the book, then why would they? it means less highlighting that s one good thing about it? i don t likelike that. i want the exact information it should be not what they feel to put in. are kids of the twitter generation victims of information overload? ohio can they tell the difference between fact and fiction? the textbook publishers are all keeping pace with the technology but still the predominant form is ink on paper. supposed to be one tool in the teacher s toolbox of how to get kids to do better. the publishers are going to keep using bias guidelines as long as they are making this multi-million-dollar investment in a textbook series. they want it to be offensive to nobody. i think the adoption process is a problem. textbook publishers hide behind it. you have a wonderful point in your book, you said i want members of the bias
students feel welcome. regardless of the school will be the new form of apartheid. ladies and gentlemen, molly healey and her book bag. whoa. illinois mom karen healey says totting around textbook is a real drag for her daughters patsy and molly. molly was literally pulling her bag down the block. the mom in me said why are you dragging your backpack? and she looked at me with tears and said you told me to bring every book home. let s weigh this thing. you want to? sure. holy smokes, molly. let s weigh patsy s bag. i m impressed couldn t flex for me? whoa. besides being a pain in the back as you will see, some textbooks are full of outright lies, completely missing basic facts, or push agendas hidden or otherwise. fox news reporting crisscrossed the country to find out what
jersey. if you were to think that a child would believe that there are two thanksgivings for the whole country, i think that s highly unlikely that the way that the book is written. here on pages 46 through 49, we live together says the first thanksgiving was all about a lack of water for people walking up the el camino path in 1598. the pilgrims in the may flower aren t mentioned pages 136 through 139. they came to america for a better life. the pilgrims built a colony built plymouth. we are trying to make sure everybody has an equal opportunity in this country so the textbooks reflect that. james banks a leader in that area. james banks is the lead author of we live together. he says banks was a prominent consultant for 1993 s reflecting diversity. multi cultural guidelines for educational publishing professionals. he developed guidelines at that time for mcmillan-mcgraw
ladies and gentlemen, molly healey and her book bag. whoa. illinois mom karen healey says totting around textbook is a real drag for her daughters patsy and molly. molly was literally pulling her bag down the block. the mom in me said why are you dragging your backpack? and she looked at me with tears and said you told me to bring every book home. let s weigh this thing. you want to? sure. holy smokes, molly. let s weigh patsy s bag. i m impressed couldn t flex for me? whoa. besides being a pain in the back as you will see, some textbooks are full of outright lies, completely missing basic facts, or push agendas hidden or otherwise. fox news reporting crisscrossed the country to find out what experts, teachers, and parents have to say about what s being taught and what s being read.