When Textbooks Fall Short: New Ways, New Texts, New Sources of Information in the Content Areas
Nancy Walker and her coauthors, Thomas Bean and Benita Dillard, know that content-area teachers today are swamped with mandates to meet and content to cover. As longtime researchers, writers, and teachers, they've seen students and teachers struggle with textbooks that don't teach. In When Textbooks Fall Short, they show how their research and experiences support their belief that reaching out to students through non-traditional texts helps everyone, including their teacher. Nancy is a professor in the teacher education department of the University of La Verne.Thomas Bean and his coauthors, Nancy Walker and Benita Dillard, know that content-area teachers today are swamped with mandates to meet and content to cover. As longtime researchers, writers, and teachers, they've seen students and teachers struggle with textbooks that don't teach. In When Textbooks Fall Short, they show how their research and experiences support their belief that reaching out to students through non-traditional texts helps everyone, including their teacher. Tom is a professor in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and editor of The Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy.Benita Dillard and her coauthors, Nancy Walker and Thomas Bean, know that content-area teachers today are swamped with mandates to meet and content to cover. As longtime researchers, writers, and teachers, they've seen students and teachers struggle with textbooks that don't teach. In When Textbooks Fall Short, they show how their research and experiences support their belief that reaching out to students through non-traditional texts helps everyone, including their teacher. Benita is a high school teacher and recently completed her doctoral studies in the department of curriculum and instruction at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.