Science Text Central

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No one knows a textbook better than someone who uses it in the classroom.

Developed by the Environmental Literacy Council, an independent, non-profit organization, Science Text Central is intended for educators, policy-makers, and textbook selection committees searching for information on K-12 science textbooks. Our database includes reviews from teachers as well as prestigious science and educational organizations.

If you've reviewed or used a textbook in the classroom, your opinion can be of great value to others going through the same process. It costs nothing to post a review and no login or password is required.

The process is simple:
From the Science Text Central homepage, click on "Review." You will see a list of textbooks in the Science Text Central database. Just click on the text you'd like to review and scroll to the bottom of the book's page to enter your review. If your textbook is not in our database, just click "Add a Text."

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Science Text News

06.13.2007: The Environmental Literacy Council examines the energy-related content in middle school science textbooks in "Energy Literacy: Are Middle School Textbooks 'Making the Grade'?"

08.13.2007: University of Texas professor Michael Granof, a textbook author and university bookstore chairman, critcizes current solutions for easing textbook costs in a recent op-ed.

08.20.2007: Science teachers and students in Florida are trying out new textbook technologies.

08.20.2007: A new study examines how students evaluate their textbooks and what factors increase the likelihood they will read them as assigned.

08.22.2007: The first school to eliminate textbooks and go all-digital reports rising standardized test scores.

09.17.2007: Teachers in Potomac, Maryland are under fire for requiring students buy textbooks for AP courses.

09.18.2007: Physics textbook Motion Mountain offered for free download online.

10.09.2007: Publishers adapt as new technologies and theories of learning drive major changes in the K-12 market.

10.23.2007: Alabama Adds Textbook about the Bible to Approved List

10.29.2007: Tuscaloosa News editorial argues that Alabama’s unwitting approval of a controversial textbook demonstrates the need for changes to the current textbook selection process.

11.05.2007: Educators seeking lessons on climate change find textbooks out of date.

11.19.2007: Florida Science Standards Online for Public Comment

01.22.2008: Students in many St. Cloud, Minnesota schools are short on textbooks.

01.31.2008: Teaching Veteran Enlivens the Science Textbook with Stories

02.26.2008: New Textbook Teaches Math Through Environmental Science