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And new research for the Copenhagen Consensus Center, the think tank I direct, highlights the counter-intuitive fact that equipping classrooms with additional textbooks or computers is no educational silver bullet, either.
Surprisingly, the same is true when it comes to basic, conventional schooling improvements like providing extra textbooks and building libraries.
In assessing research relevant for policymakers in Bangladesh, Rabbani found only one study showing that additional textbooks definitely improved test scores – and only the top students benefited.
Finally, rather than protesting the way Japan's WWII activities are described in US textbooks or squabbling over the number of people murdered during the Nanjing massacre, Japan should seek to help its own citizens understand and process their country's wartime record.
The aggregate equations that underpin Keynes’s “general theory” still populate economics textbooks and shape macroeconomic policy.
To this day, the Tudors enjoy a near-ubiquitous presence in British textbooks, media, films, and the popular imagination.
Yuan has vowed never to allow textbooks “promoting Western values” – especially those that “attack or defame the leadership of the Party or smear socialism” – into Chinese classrooms.
Even companies that provide textbooks, educational software, management systems, and student loans fail to achieve the level of excellence reached in other sectors.
I had the good fortune to collaborate with Rudi in writing two textbooks and several articles.
Children are awarded higher grades for writing sentences exactly like the ones they see in textbooks than for coming up with ideas of their own.
Rich developed a platform for authors, teachers, and students to create, remix, and share courses and textbooks.
Today, some community college students have to quit school because their textbooks cost more than their tuition; and today, some third graders have to share math texts because there aren’t enough to go around.
But imagine a world where textbooks and other learning materials are available to everyone for free over the Web and at low cost in print.
But imagine a world where textbooks are adapted to many learning styles and translated into myriad languages.
Today, Pluto remains on the list of planets in science textbooks, and who knows how long it will take for it to be removed.
But imagine a world where textbooks are continually updated and corrected by a legion of contributors.
We refuse to play the part of hapless victim in future history textbooks.
Instead of sinking massive amounts of money into poorly performing school systems, Latin American governments would undoubtedly be interested in innovative solutions, such as tablet-based textbooks, that can help teachers provide effective lessons, monitor their students’ progress, and identify remediation strategies.
There are plenty of good textbooks that explain what too many policymakers and financial-market participants would rather forget.
So, is it time to update the economics textbooks?
Since 2003, this extra money has allowed the government to hire some 410,000 more teachers, add 205,000 classrooms, and distribute 1.8 billion free textbooks.
Rewriting Textbook EconomicsTILBURG – Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke’s recent announcement that the Fed would maintain the current pace of monetary stimulus in the United States has cinched it: economics textbooks, at least the chapters on monetary policy, need to be rewritten.
So they bucked accepted theory, as set forth in standard textbooks like Principles of Economics by Greg Mankiw and Money, the Financial System, and the Economy by Glenn Hubbard, in favor of so-called “unconventional” monetary policy.
Universities around the world would be well advised to consider this fundamental shift in central banks’ approach when selecting textbooks for their economics students.
Another problem is that, as Ricardo Hausmann has argued, the know-how necessary to make a modern economy grow is embedded in people, not textbooks.
In non-fragile, low-income countries, aid for primary education now stands at just $23 per child annually – barely enough to buy two textbooks – down 8% from a decade ago.
This does not mean a one-size-fits-all scenario: there could be a competitive market, as there already is for textbooks, with perhaps a dozen people dominating much of the market.
Disputes over territory, natural resources, war memorials, air defense zones, and textbooks are all linked, in one way or another, with rival historical narratives.
Sufficient numbers of teachers, school buildings, and textbooks are all essential, but accelerating learning requires much more.
Last but not least: it is not widely known that one anomaly of Lebanon’s status until this very day is that Syria has not fully recognized its existence as a sovereign nation (in Syrian school textbooks, Lebanon figures as part of Greater Syria).
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