Thursday, October 29, 2009

Boston publisher enters new chapter in textbooks - The Boston Globe

Interesting times

“The textbook is no longer the center of the educational universe,’’ said Wendy Colby, a senior vice president at Houghton, which is based in Boston.

The Boston publisher is selling some textbooks to Detroit, but most of the contract is for such software such as Learning Village - a customized, interactive classroom network.

Detroit’s teachers will be able to prepare and assign homework through Learning Village and use its tools to measure how well students learn - even how well they understand a lesson taught earlier in the day.

Boston publisher enters new chapter in textbooks - The Boston Globe

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