{"id":5648,"date":"2010-05-17T08:57:37","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:57:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5648"},"modified":"2010-05-17T08:57:37","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T13:57:37","slug":"etext-books-arrive-for-california-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5648","title":{"rendered":"eText Books Arrive for California Schools&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Inland Valley <strong><em><a title=\"Online books arrive; School's study ways touse the Free texts.\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailybulletin.com\/ci_15093080\" target=\"_self\">Daily Bulletin<\/a><\/em><\/strong> has a post updating last year&#8217;s <strong><a title=\"Arnold's Digital Textbook Initiative\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2217\" target=\"_self\">story<\/a><\/strong> about California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s <strong>Digital Textbook Initiative <\/strong>and the state&#8217;s cash-strapped school\u00c2\u00a0districts&#8217; efforts to find ways to utilize the 30 standards-aligned textbooks now available for high school classrooms.<\/p>\n<p>Schwarzenegger should be applauded for his hi-tech maneuvering. At $105 for an English printed\u00c2\u00a0textbook and $65 for math it&#8217;s easy to see the long-term savings in going digital. The tough part will be crossing the hardware divide that some lower-income students might face, but the article indicates the use of identical\u00c2\u00a0print outs\u00c2\u00a0(PDF&#8217;s) should provide\u00c2\u00a0all of\u00c2\u00a0their students\u00c2\u00a0access to the information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inland Valley Daily Bulletin has a post updating last year&#8217;s story about California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger&#8217;s Digital Textbook Initiative and the state&#8217;s cash-strapped school\u00c2\u00a0districts&#8217; efforts to find ways to utilize the 30 standards-aligned textbooks now available for high school classrooms. Schwarzenegger should be applauded for his hi-tech maneuvering. At $105 for an English printed\u00c2\u00a0textbook &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5648\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3,5,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5648"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5660,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5648\/revisions\/5660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}