17 min
Will Digital Textbooks Expand the Achievement Gap? #EdReality Check
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- Kurser
Digital textbooks are coming. Driven by demand for for more effective teaching strategies, the need to reduce costs and advances in technology. But will a digital divide cause a move to digital text books to expand the achievement gap?
Kevin Carney is Director of Beyond Textbooks. Bethlam Forsa is Executive Vice President of Content Development and Publishing Operations at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Neeru Khosla is the Co-Founder of the CK12 Foundation. Valerie Strauss is an education writer at The Washington Post. Justin Snider is a contributing editor at The Hechinger Report and teaches undergraduate writing at Columbia University.
Digital textbooks are coming. Driven by demand for for more effective teaching strategies, the need to reduce costs and advances in technology. But will a digital divide cause a move to digital text books to expand the achievement gap?
Kevin Carney is Director of Beyond Textbooks. Bethlam Forsa is Executive Vice President of Content Development and Publishing Operations at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Neeru Khosla is the Co-Founder of the CK12 Foundation. Valerie Strauss is an education writer at The Washington Post. Justin Snider is a contributing editor at The Hechinger Report and teaches undergraduate writing at Columbia University.
17 min