MIAMI — Audrey Silverman arrived at Dr. Michael M. Krop Senior High in Miami last week ready to finish “The Necklace,” the English class staple short story about the deceptiveness of appearances and ...

A letter to the editor in the Des Moines Register last week exposes a new concern for teachers: Could funding for professional development soon be consumed by textbook companies? “In my 13 years as a ...

American companies sell about $11 billion in textbooks each year. Why does social studies teacher Mark Ingerson never use them in his classes at Salem High School in Virginia? He doesn't assign the ...

As an English teacher at Heavener High School in eastern Oklahoma, Sarah Jane Scarberry said she has tried for years to replace her classroom’s tattered textbooks. “I have requested new textbooks for ...

When teacher Mike Fletcher leads students through a geometry lesson, he brings a special kind of authority to the subject. He helped write their textbook. Fletcher spent several weeks over the summer ...

When David Rockwood, a teacher at Payson High School in Utah, decided to combine two of his areas of expertise--athletics and psychology--into a new course, he ran into one major roadblock: There were ...

The textbooks used in teacher education do not adequately promote all the tenets of good classroom instruction, the National Council on Teacher Quality contends in a new report. In a survey of 48 ...

Online math textbooks launched this year in Fairfax County Public schools are receiving harsh reviews from teachers and parents. “There was little notice of the change and little support,” wrote one ...

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A group of high school math teachers have saved the Anoka-Hennepin school district about $175,000 by creating their own online textbook. District technology manager Bruce Dewitt ...

When a UCLA professor debuted the custom textbook a year ago, other faculty criticized it as a potential threat to teaching ...