atw: Fwd: Bill puts page limit on California textbooks
- From: Stuart Burnfield <sburnf@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 13:02:00 +0800
"The California Assembly is betting that kids learn more with small books.
Lawmakers voted Thursday to ban school districts from purchasing textbooks
longer than 200 pages.
The workplace increasingly demands more than the ability to read page 435
of some manual. It requires expertise in using the Internet to research and
solve problems, according to Goldberg..."
Full story:
http://www.knoxstudio.com/shns/story.cfm?pk=TEXTBOOKS-05-26-05&cat=AN
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Stuart Burnfield
Information Developer
Australian Programming Centre
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