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Via INCITE - Beck
The California Assembly is betting that kids learn more with small books.
Lawmakers voted Thursday to ban school districts from purchasing textbooks longer than 200 pages.
The bill, believed to be the first of its kind nationwide, was hailed by supporters as a way to revolutionize education.
AB 756 was approved by a vote of 42-28, with most Republicans opposing the measure.
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The California Assembly is betting that kids learn more with small books.
Lawmakers voted Thursday to ban school districts from purchasing textbooks longer than 200 pages.
The bill, believed to be the first of its kind nationwide, was hailed by supporters as a way to revolutionize education.
AB 756 was approved by a vote of 42-28, with most Republicans opposing the measure.
From The Tin Tin Man:
I take the number of comments I get on a particular post as a value judgment of that post. Some people write posts on cheese sandwiches and get 15 comments in response.
Posted by Enlighten-NewJersey @ 11:20 PM
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Kids today are often forbidden the opportunity to go to their lockers (if their school has them) between classes. They lug all their textbooks about in backpacks that weigh as much as some 6th and 7th graders. This proposal is an obvious attempt to alleviate the huge physical burden some students sling over their shoulders when the bell rings.
That being said, I hope the textbook publishers reissue the same books in two, three or four volumes with increased costs for those states/districts that are willing to pay while at the same time keeping the original volume for those schools which don't force kids to carry every worldly possession or which use classroom texts as references.
California and Texas, the two largest purchasers of textbooks in the country, often drive the market. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
By the way, isn't carrying textbooks a good form of physical exercise when done correctly? Shouldn't we be incouraging students to get more physical exercise since we have really watered down the PE classes since they went coed? (That's not a knock on either sex. There just seems to be less competition in PE classes. When guys competed against guys and gals against gals, they seemed to get into it more.)
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