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Should Tablets Replace Textbooks?: Reading Practice 5 (discussion)

By | December 6, 2017

Publishing for the K-12 school market is an $8 billion industry, with three companies – McGraw-Hill, Pearson, and Houghton Mifflin Harcourt – capturing about 85% of this market. Tablets are a $72 billion industry with 42% of US adults owning a tablet. As tablets have become more prevalent, a new debate has formed over whether K-12 school districts… Read More »

Discussion

By | December 22, 2017

What is a discussion text? The following illustration will help you understand what a discussion text is. Picture in your mind two teams of students in an English class debating about a problematic or controversial issue, an important issue that raises pros and cons, e.g. abortion. Team A is for abortion, while Team B is against it. Team… Read More »