Final chapter looms for textbooks in Texas AP Texas News Chron.com - Houston Chronicle:
"FORT WORTH, Texas — Textbooks could be going the way of slide rules and Big Chief tablets within a few years in Texas classrooms.
State legislation passed in the spring could put up-to-the-minute instructional content at students' fingertips — either online or in customized printed form — eliminating the mass-market hardback textbook.
The sea change could happen sooner rather than later, beginning as early as the 2010-11 school year.
'This is one of the few times we can do things cheaper, faster and better all at the same time,' said the measure's author, state Rep. Scott Hochberg, D-Houston.
The legislation is one of two bills passed this year that allow the Texas Education Agency to create its own repository of digital textbook content."
"FORT WORTH, Texas — Textbooks could be going the way of slide rules and Big Chief tablets within a few years in Texas classrooms.
State legislation passed in the spring could put up-to-the-minute instructional content at students' fingertips — either online or in customized printed form — eliminating the mass-market hardback textbook.
The sea change could happen sooner rather than later, beginning as early as the 2010-11 school year.
'This is one of the few times we can do things cheaper, faster and better all at the same time,' said the measure's author, state Rep. Scott Hochberg, D-Houston.
The legislation is one of two bills passed this year that allow the Texas Education Agency to create its own repository of digital textbook content."
