89.33 KPCC – Kyle Stokes
“If you were tasked with buying textbooks for a school, and your four best options essentially cost the same, how would you decide which one to buy? Wouldn’t you ask, “Which of these textbooks will do the most to help kids learn?” In reality, educators don’t always get an answer to this question. Only a handful of states collect data on which textbooks schools choose, much less the effect of these choices on students’ test scores. A team of university researchers wants that to change.”(more)