Utah is working on free online textbooks

Utah is working on free online textbooks

By lisa schencker
The Salt Lake Tribune

Published Feb 2, 2012 02:23PM MDT

Heavy textbooks weighing down teens’ backpacks might soon become a thing of the past in Utah.
The State Office of Education has announced that it will develop open textbooks in math, language arts and science — which will be available online, for free — for junior highs and high schools. Once the textbooks are available, schools and students will be encouraged to use them online for free or print them at a cost of about $5 a book or less for schools, said Sydnee Dickson, teaching and learning di...

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