If you read most textbooks, they are often (aside from AP ones) little other than the state required "essential knowledge" with verbs thrown in. I believe they are popular because they are easy as in a teacher telling his/her students to just read pages 33-35 as opposed to giving a flipped lecture and then finding a primary document (something rarely found in a textbook) or exercise (which some books do come with). In three of our my courses this year my students are using it as a resource and that's it and I am working on the 4th little by little. At any rate, I just found a Facebook page called "
Ditch the Textbook" which I am going to be looking at a lot this year for ideas.
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