It breaks my heart when the costs of college-level textbooks are labeled as “junk fees.” Or, when people complain that today’s textbooks are “overstuffed, chopped-up monstrosities” that are boring and do little to advance student learning.
Yet all this angst over textbooks misses these crucial facts: Textbooks provide a carefully curated body of knowledge.
Textbooks need to be nearly 100 percent accurate. Textbooks offer the view of an expert educator. Their quality cannot be compared to the free content that we find online.
Read more at The Hechinger Report.
