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a book used for instruction in a subject
one shelf in my bookcase is crammed full of my old college textbooks
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In 2013, Pearson’s state exams featured crass, commercial product placements as well as reading passages lifted from Pearson textbooks.
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Kemala Karmen, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
For example, many physicians initially opposed learning from medical textbooks, arguing that conjuring knowledge from memory forced deeper reflection.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Avoid textbooks that say there are notations on the various pages, as these may not be the notes that earn you a good grade.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
She was inspired by a character of the same name, a schoolgirl with pigtails, who appeared on the covers of Korean textbooks in the ’70s and ’80s.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
For example, Native students attending local public schools in Chicago at the turn of the century encountered stereotypical and racist depictions of Indigenous people in their textbooks and curricula.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
In response, in the 1920s, during a wave of Indigenous intellectual organizing, the Indian Council Fire (ICF) in Chicago called for better representation of Native people in school textbooks.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Fifty years later, in 1971, the Chicago Tribune documented how Menominee mother and activist Carol Warrington was jailed after pulling her children out of school in protest of the inaccurate and harmful depictions of Native people in their school textbooks.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Family stories lie on the edge of history, just beyond the textbooks and official accounts in a realm where the past is always present.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
Kemala Karmen, New York Daily News, 18 Dec. 2024
For example, many physicians initially opposed learning from medical textbooks, arguing that conjuring knowledge from memory forced deeper reflection.
—Spencer Dorn, Forbes, 13 Dec. 2024
Avoid textbooks that say there are notations on the various pages, as these may not be the notes that earn you a good grade.
—Kurt Knutsson, Cyberguy Report, Fox News, 11 Dec. 2024
She was inspired by a character of the same name, a schoolgirl with pigtails, who appeared on the covers of Korean textbooks in the ’70s and ’80s.
—Radhika Seth, Vogue, 27 Nov. 2024
For example, Native students attending local public schools in Chicago at the turn of the century encountered stereotypical and racist depictions of Indigenous people in their textbooks and curricula.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
In response, in the 1920s, during a wave of Indigenous intellectual organizing, the Indian Council Fire (ICF) in Chicago called for better representation of Native people in school textbooks.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Fifty years later, in 1971, the Chicago Tribune documented how Menominee mother and activist Carol Warrington was jailed after pulling her children out of school in protest of the inaccurate and harmful depictions of Native people in their school textbooks.
—TIME, 25 Nov. 2024
Family stories lie on the edge of history, just beyond the textbooks and official accounts in a realm where the past is always present.
—Tribune News Service, The Mercury News, 16 Oct. 2024
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