Their Textbook, Your Choice.

BY JONATHAN REES Way back when I was new to teaching I got into an argument with my then-department chairman about the textbook to assign in my American history survey course. I had my choice. He had a choice that he thought we should all assign because it was “the leading textbook in the field.”…

A Link to "The Trouble With Textbooks: A Great American Rip-Off"

The following is a link to an article I published about textbooks.  I resolve to do something concrete about this problem, and one part of the solution will be abandoning the practice of using textbooks for certain courses.  I hope others will follow and offer suggestions.  I hope others may already be teaching without “required” textbooks. http://dailycaller.com/2014/08/22/the-trouble-with-textbooks-a-great-american-rip-off/