Schools shift from textbooks to tablets

New York students would ditch textbooks and be issued tablets under a proposal by a leading candidate for mayor.

Amazon.com on Monday began letting students rent textbooks on Kindle electronic readers.

Students don't seem to want to buy e-textbooks. So some schools are simply forcing them.

Apple Inc. on Thursday launched its attempt to make the iPad a replacement for a satchel full of textbooks by starting to sell electronic versions of a handful of standard high-school books.

US and Canadian college students can pack textbooks into their pockets instead of spine-bending backpacks courtesy of an iPhone application released by CourseSmart.

(AP)—The New York City Department of Education is making the morning-after-pill available to high school girls at 13 public schools.

(Phys.org) —Ultimately, our ability to convincingly lie to each other may have evolved as a direct result of our cooperative nature.

University of Illinois English professor Ted Underwood recently wrapped up a research project involving more than 4,200 books. Since that work revealed dramatic shifts in the English language between the ...

Whites would lose their majority in the U.S. three years later than expected if immigration growth slows, according to census estimates released Wednesday.

Sixty-two percent of Americans now say they believe that global warming is happening, but 46 percent say they are "very sure" or "extremely sure" that it is not. Only 49 percent know why it is occurring, and about as many ...

With concerns often expressed about youth crime and violence in the UK, researchers have been investigating what young people really think about living in an inner-city neighbourhood that has high levels of deprivation, crime ...

Four years ago this spring, Birtukan Midekssa was in solitary confinement in an Ethiopian prison. Her cell was 13 feet wide and 20 feet long and had no window. She was allowed only two visitors: her elderly ...