May 11, 2001

Can Plot Improve Pedagogy? Novel Textbooks Give It a Try

By ALISON SCHNEIDER

Some professors fear substance is sacrificed for the sake of keeping students' attention

Textbooks have one big strike against them. They almost never talk about sex or death. And when they do, it's about as gripping as an actuarial table.

That might

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