Districts ‘Go Open’ for instructional resources
Educators from all over the country came to Columbus Thursday for a technology convention on how they can use and share curricula and other educational resources online — a movement many of them say is the way of the future.
Open-source textbooks gain in push for college affordability
The standard textbook for Fundamentals of General Chemistry I at the University of Connecticut has a list price of $303. For students who use the version professor Edward Neth is preparing for the fall semester, the cost will be zero.
Years into Common Core, teachers lament lack of materials
The learning standards were new. The textbooks were not.
CMSD learns final value of textbook return
Of the $1.1 million worth of textbooks the Columbus Municipal School Board of Trustees has voted to purchase in the last six months, $34,547 currently stands as a waste.
Our View: Textbook fiasco draws to a close
Monday night, the Columbus Municipal School District Board of Trustees got the final tally of what it cost the district to replace one set of new textbooks for another.
CMSD receives credit for returned books
The Columbus Municipal School District will receive $159,610 worth of credit for $506,000 worth of textbooks ordered in May.
Our View: Public deserves clarity on textbook issue
The continuing saga of the Columbus Municipal School District’s textbook fiasco has raised unsettling questions.
CMSD book order partially returned
The Columbus Municipal School District has returned a portion of textbooks that have been sitting unused, according to superintendent Dr. Philip Hickman.
CMSD’s old textbooks still up in the air
The Columbus Municipal School District has not yet resolved the issue of unused textbooks.
Columbus school board questions old textbooks
Three months after the Columbus Municipal School District board voted to revamp the district’s curriculum, the district is sitting on $500,000-plus worth of unused textbooks.
CMSD board buys new books
The Columbus Municipal School Board voted to approve $600,000 worth of textbooks Friday on the recommendation of superintendent Dr. Philip Hickman.
CMSD supe: All 9th, 10th graders under-performing
Every freshman and sophomore at Columbus High School is performing below grade level in mathematics, according to Columbus Municipal School District Superintendent Philip Hickman.
CMSD needs two meetings to approve salaries
The Columbus Municipal School Board held two specially called meetings Wednesday to address the districts’ proposed schedule of 2014-2015 employee salaries.
CMSD votes to approve salary scale
The Columbus Municipal School Board will be able to issue teacher contracts after the school board voted to approve employee salaries Wednesday morning at a specially called meeting.
CMSD board fails to issue teacher contracts
The Columbus Municipal School District will not immediately be able to issue teacher contracts for the upcoming school year.
Columbus School board won’t go ‘buy the book’
The Columbus Municipal School Board rejected a request of almost $2 million dollars from interim school superintendent Edna McGill, a move that could prevent students from having the proper textbooks for the 2014-15 school year.
Mexico heads back to school with 235 million flawed textbooks
MEXICO CITY — As Mexican children trooped back to school on Monday, they had already learned one lesson: You can’t believe everything you read in
Students have new options for textbooks
Local universities will offer a textbook rental program starting this fall, in hopes of helping students save money.