Sentence examples for use of textbooks from inspiring English sources

The federal government's first major investment in the free use of textbooks remains on track, Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill). said Monday in a letter examining a pilot program by the Education Department.

BACK in 1922, Thomas Edison predicted that "the motion picture is destined to revolutionise our educational system and...in a few years it will supplant largely, if not entirely, the use of textbooks".

"Several questions were related to the use of textbooks, and we're a textbook-free school," he said, explaining that his teachers' original lessons are superior to the packaged curriculums.

They found important differences in terms of what it means to be a teacher, attitudes to collaborative study, use of textbooks and libraries, access to research and methods of assuring standards, all of which impact on students' understandings of what it means to be a good student in these various systems.

While some students took the online units, others were taught using traditional methods, including the use of textbooks.

In non-instructed contexts, learners are apprenticed through the use of textbooks and practice tests, though there is considerable variance in the preparation strategies adopted.

A reliance on or use of textbook questions, or the repeated use of a particular case study from session to session has a greater potential for previously submitted assignments to be reused by students.

At each school, 40 to 60 students will be given the device to use instead of textbooks in their courses.

However, 59 schools (74%) wanted to consider the use of standard textbooks, if any were available, 16 schools (20%) were not considering using textbooks, and 5 schools (6%) did not respond.

Not wanting to be outdone by South Korea and others, which mandated the use of digital textbooks by 2015, earlier this year the FCC and the Department of Ed released the Digital Textbook Playbook to help accelerate digital textbook adoption among American schools.

"USAid's mission director, Nancy Estes, said: "The development of quality textbooks alone cannot assure the quality of education unless teachers are trained in the use of the textbooks".