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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want your kids to benefit from using physical books, choose a school whose courses require them to read ENTIRE books - NOT necessarily textbooks, just entire works of fiction or nonfiction to build that endurance and reading pattern.

Using a textbook for humanities content implies there is only ONE set of info and exercises appropriate for a given course.  Teachers can tell you that is far from true.  Getting out of that one 5-pound book means a teacher can vary the instructional format and not let kids fall into the classic rut: read the chapter, do some exercises, have a quiz, then forget it all as you go to the next chapter.

That's what kids learn to do in school unless teachers push them in different directions. I learned like that and now teach very differently.

At the end of the day, the teacher will be far more important than the book in determining whether your kids are engaged and learning.[/quote]

True, and, of course, most teachers who have text books do not solely use the text for teaching. However, for the student, a textbook does provide a framework and a reference for understanding the material and zooming in and out on the larger context of the class. I know that when my kids were studying, sometimes they needed to reference areas in the textbook that were not addressed by the class to better understand the material the was being covered, much like a college student would do. They have been in schools with and without textbooks and understood far more in the schools that thoughtfully selected textbooks which could be used a reference.[/quote]

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