re: #126 Great White Snark

That and maybe getting off of paper would help. PDF the textbooks. No more volume print issues.

It’s where the future is heading, but it would require every student have a laptop/iPad/tablet/Nook/Kindle or some future version of e-book viewer. It would also require each teacher be trained on the use of such devices and how to use them in the classroom. To be honest, the second challenge is the larger of the two. I lived through the Great Calculator controversy as a student, then the Great Word Processor controversy as a teacher. Many teachers are very set in their ways, and are unwilling to move with the times.

Th downside of electronic textbooks would be each state could custom-order its own version, which would allow the nutjobs in Texas and elsewhere to foist nonsense on their schoolchildren.