Thought Textbooks Would All Be Gone by Now? Well, Think Again
Compared with a couple of years ago, children in many California schools have one less tome to lug in their backpacks.
Instead of standard textbooks, they use what publisher Pearson Education Inc. calls its “digital path” to California’s elementary history and social sciences curriculum. Since the state school board approved it in November 2005, districts serving about half the state’s students have bought the series, which combines online multimedia resources and activities with slim, printed “work-texts.”
That digital path might seem an obvious one for U.S. textbook publishers to take. After all, K-12 students routinely tote cellphones, iPods, and even laptops...
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Correction:
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, the vice president of the education division of the Software and Information Industry Association and to Mark Schneiderman, the director of education policy at the association. Also, the earlier story should have attributed to Mr. Schneiderman, not to Jay Diskey, a statement that the SIIA's 2004 policy document represented the group's current viewpoint.
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