Terminator: Salvation in doing away with schoolbooks

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Last month, the Governor of California, Arnold Schwarzenegger, presented the Free Digital Textbook Initiative, a project to provide a list of freely downloadable digital textbooks for public high schools that cover the course content in mathematics and science subject areas. The California Learning Resource Network has been given the responsibility for reviewing materials from publishers to verify that they will be aligned to the California content standards. So far, courses up for proposals are geometry, algebra 2, trigonometry, calculus, physics, chemistry, biology/life sciences, and earth sciences, including the investigation and experimentation strand. Digital textbook content has to “approach or equal a full course of study” and must be downloadable. ...cont´d

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