Amazon's Kindle DX goes international
Amazon.com on Wednesday made its premier Kindle DX model electronic reader available in more than 100 countries.
Consumer & Gadgets
Jan 6, 2010
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Climate impacts are increasing; textbooks aren't keeping pace
A new study from North Carolina State University finds that biology textbooks have done a poor job of incorporating material related to climate change. For example, the study found that most textbooks published in the 2010s ...
Environment
Dec 21, 2022
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Analyst: Apple sold more than 350,000 e-textbooks in 3 days
Apple's foray into the e-textbook business started off with a bang, according to a Monday report: The company sold more than 350,000 textbooks through its new version of iBooks in its first three days of availability, an ...
Business
Jan 24, 2012
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Textbook rentals a growing trend in higher education
ntil recently, when it came to buying textbooks, there really were only two primary options for the nation’s college students: new or used, and used only sometimes. However, over the past few years, there has been a ...
Internet
May 4, 2012
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Some Kenyan parents oppose laptop offer to kids (Update)
An ambitious plan by Kenya's government to give laptops to schoolchildren has been opposed by parents who say the money for the computers should instead go toward raising teachers' salaries and feeding children.
Social Sciences
Jul 4, 2013
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Free search engine connects classrooms with science and technology
An educational search engine funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR) has gone mobile just in time for the holidays with the Dec. 16 release of an iPad app.
Software
Dec 20, 2012
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High school math course titles don't matter much
(AP)—When it comes to high school math, the course titles don't really matter or even predict what's in the textbook.
Social Sciences
Mar 12, 2013
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War is text: Researchers find depictions of war in school textbooks shifted radically after Vietnam era
(Phys.org) —Modern day textbooks draw a different picture of war than their predecessors did in the era immediately after World War II leading up to the Vietnam War, a study by University at Albany researchers finds.
Social Sciences
Aug 7, 2014
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Students who get stuck look for computer malfunctions
When students working with educational software get stymied, they often try to find fault with the computer or the software, rather than look to their own mistakes, according to a new dissertation at the University of Gothenburg, ...
Social Sciences
Jun 5, 2009
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Science materials in Texas get prelim. approval
(AP) -- An expected fight over teaching evolution in Texas classrooms fizzled Thursday when the state's Board of Education gave preliminary approval to supplemental science materials for the coming school year and beyond ...
Other
Jul 22, 2011
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