World History class - where are the books??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is it only AP classes that have text books? My elementary school kids don’t know what text books are. I had to explain it to them. As they get older, it makes studying really hard.

There are no benefits to these companies printing textbooks anymore. They can quickly fix a mistake online and re-post in five minutes.

And again, research shows that it beneficial for kids (everyone, really) to use printed books, rather than screens. Comprehension and retention is improved.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC is a high school freshman taking World History, and just spent 6 hours this weekend doing a writing assignment that consisted entirely of answering questions about history by going to a list of about 4 websites to find the answers, or using some obvious cut and pastes from such sites that the teacher put on Schoology. The websites were totally random and not great sources for this particular information. If the point was to dig through hundreds of web pages for factoids, then I guess the teacher succeeded, but this certainly isn't the best way to learn about history. It seems that every assignment is like this all year. There is no textbook - the teacher just posts a bunch of general websites or copied texts from websites and has the kids dig for information on the internet. I studied history in grad school and I'm horrified because searching websites for facts has nothing to do with the actual field of history. Some of the sites the teacher provided aren't even very good or well-written. Is the whole county like this? Are there no actual history books, or history articles, or any kind of real history text written by historians?

Yep. It's how it is and it sucks.