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The Rhetorica ad Herennium, formerly attributed to Cicero but of unknown authorship, is the oldest surviving Latin book on rhetoric, dating from the 90s BC, and is still used today as a textbook on the structure and uses of rhetoric and persuasion.
An original calculus textbook, written by ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, was written around 200 BC. Surviving copy recently uncovered in France.
Known in English as the Treatise on Cold Damage Disorders or the Treatise on Cold Injury, Shang Han Lun is a Chinese medical textbook that was compiled by Zhang Zhongjing sometime before the year 220, at the end of the Han dynasty. It is the oldest complete clinical textbook in the world, and one of the four canonical works that students must study in traditional Chinese medical education.
Modern imaging technology is resurrecting lost chapters of Europe's oldest surviving "book." The Derveni papyrus, a fourth-century B.C. religious discourse, was charred in an ancient funeral pyre
Rise of monastic writing in Europe. Monks copy various learning texts by hand to collect and preserve knowledge.
The worlds oldest surviving printed book is a Buddhist religious textbook, the Diamond Sutra, dated 868 AD, long before Gutenberg invents movable text printing in Europe.
Texts created specifically for education have been around at least since the Ancient Greeks.
German Johannes Gutenberg "invents" (or re-invents) the printing press, around 1440, in the Holy Roman Empire.
Orbis Pictus, or Orbis Sensualium Pictus (The Visible World in Pictures) is a textbook for children written by Czech educator Comenius and published in 1658. It is something of a children's encyclopedia and is considered to be the first picture book intended for children.
The New England Primer was the first reading primer designed for the American Colonies. It became the most successful educational textbook published in 18th century America and it became the foundation of most schooling before the 1790s.
By some accounts it was one of the few schoolbooks used by Abraham Lincoln. Published in 1761, by 1773, it was in its thirty-sixth edition. The last American edition was published in 1827 in New Haven, Connecticut. Dilworth also published The Schoolmaster's Assistant, Being a Compendium of Arithmetic both Practical and Theoretical, one of the earliest American math textbooks.
Ancient Sanskrit textbooks composed, although surviving copies are more contemporary. These texts include direct instruction on proper pronunciation of mantras.
Lessons for Children is a series of four age-adapted reading primers written by the prominent 18th-century British poet and essayist Anna Laetitia Barbauld. Published in 1778 and 1779, the books initiated a revolution in children's literature in the Anglo-American world. For the first time, the needs of the child reader were seriously considered: the typographically simple texts progress in difficulty as the child learns. In perhaps the first demonstration of experiential pedagogy in Anglo-American children's literature, Barbauld's books use a conversational style, which depicts a mother and her son discussing the natural world. Based on the educational theories of John Locke, Barbauld's books emphasize learning through the senses.
Noah Webster was an American educator, lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English spelling reformer, political writer, editor, and prolific author. He has been called the "Father of American Scholarship and Education." In 1783 he published A Grammatical Institute of the English Language, the first attempt to teach American English.
McGuffey Readers were a series of graded primers that were widely used as textbooks in American schools from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century, and are still used today in some private schools and in homeschooling. It is estimated that at least 120 million copies of McGuffey's Readers were sold between 1836 and 1960.
American science textbooks gave a home to Eugenics, even long after the tragedies of World War 2.
Dick and Jane were the main characters in popular basal readers written by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharp that were used to teach children to read from the 1930s through to the 1970s in the United States.
Nazi Germany used textbooks extensively for propaganda purposes.
Textbook controversies have flared up several times in Japan since the end of World War 2, mostly surrounding efforts to minimize Japanese war aggression and atrocities.
In summer and fall 1974, the most violent protest over public school textbooks in United States history erupted in Kanawha County, West Virginia. Bombs were planted in elementary schools, children were stoned on the way to school, and the Klu Klux Klan became involved.
The MIT OpenCourseWare project is credited for having sparked a global Open Educational Resources Movement after announcing in 2001 that it was going to put MIT's entire course catalog online and launching this project in 2002.
According to a Government Accountability Office report, “While there are hundreds of college textbook publishers, there has been substantial industry consolidation in recent years, with sales at five of the largest publishers representing over 80 percent of the market in 2004.”
In 2004 the quiet town of Dover, Pennsylvania was catapulted into the spotlight of national attention and scrutiny. That year, Dover Area School District board member Bill Buckingham requested that a textbook teaching intelligent design—the idea that life is too complex to have evolved naturally and therefore must have been designed by an intelligent agent—be added to the science program.
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong is a 1995 book by sociologist James Loewen. It critically examines twelve American history textbooks and concludes that textbook authors propagate factually false, Eurocentric, and mythologized views of history. It won a 1996 American book award.
On university campuses across the United States, Public Interest Research Groups begin to seriously push for textbook reform, with numerous studies and reports.
Flat World Knowledge is the leading publisher of college-level open textbooks and educational supplements. The company offers every textbook published for free using online delivery under the open content paradigm
Educational-publishing giant Houghton Mifflin grew even bigger today, leaving the sector largely in the hands of Houghton, Pearson, and McGraw-Hill.
EDITORIAL: That Book Costs How Much?
The college textbook market represents between $5 billion and $6 billion.
Conservative members maintain that they are trying to correct what they see as a liberal bias among the teachers who proposed the curriculum. To that end, they made dozens of minor changes aimed at calling into question, among other things, concepts like the separation of church and state and the secular nature of the American Revolution.
Over 15 companies now offer online textbook rental.
In an interview, Flat World Knowledge founder reveals that ”I think we’re certainly going to be over 3,000 unique faculty, 1,800 colleges and some where in the neighborhood of a couple hundred thousand students when the doors open in the fall (2011).
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