they estimate that textbooks cost triple the past few years and the professors want to change that. you try to create a data base of online source materials and where students can get it for free. >> i think open textbooks are the beginning. where we're seeing the technology is sweeping through the ways we distribute knowledge and teach. >> and some have put up the money and said six rice university professors and others can develop the free online text. >>> and saved you a couple of bucks. >> that would have. they were a big deal. >> yeah. >> and selling them back to the book store. >> and some pennies -- pennies back. >> somebody able to carry it in the pocket. >> follow the mean, everyone. >> very true. moment and another beautiful day. >> it was great and into the low 50s k. you feel how warm that is get something. >> yes. >> and that is making a big difference. and a live look outside new and some dry skies tonight. we're not expecting to have the temperatures drop at all and so, definitely a good looking forecast. and that is for sure. and we will continue to track the showers

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now, legislateors want to put textbooks online or in electronic form. a bill would require publickers to put top 50 textbooks in e book form or online for free. this is an idea considered ground breaking. >> students no longer can afford to continue to opt out of classes and not take classes or buy the books five weeks into the course. >> so why are the books so expensive? they found costs go up because publickers revise textbooks each year and each year, price goes up about 12%. and there is a marketing operation fined for deceiving customers about freed paid cards and said that the calling cords were marketed to immigrants trying to call home. and the cards provided fewer than half of the promised minutes and much value was wiped out by hidden fees. and marketing operation did not respond to our requests for comment. >> and the hint giant home alarm company adt will pay $950,000 to settle a lawsuit over unfair business practices. the suit said adt failed to notify consumers about all fees and cancellation charges. prosecutors say adt required customer

college students pay more than $1,000 a year for textbooks. on the heels of apple announcing it would provide digital textbooks, lawmakers are considering ways to lower costs including completely switching to electronic or web-based books. a bill making its way through the legislature would require the top 50 books of the top 50 courses students take to be made into electronic books and free to all students online. a new report says textbooks currently make up about 75% of total student expenses at california community colleges. on average, publishers release new editions of their books every three years. with each one costing about 12% more than the last one. >> students are asking for relief. they no longer can afford to continue to opt out of classes, not take classes or buy the book five weeks into the course. all hurting their education. >> lawmakers say electronic textbooks could give students that relief they're looking for. they can be updated regularly and immediately at no extra cost. >>> they are starting to spread out after a ten-d

and in 1976, textbook publisher approached me and asked me about writing a new textbook to take the place of the old james c. randolph by then randall donald on civil war and reconstruction, perhaps naively and foolishly i agreed to under take that project. that evolved five years later into a college textbook ordeal by fire. at the same time van woodward approached me about writing a volume in the oxford history of the united states, which turned out after first going to be the guilded age reconstruction guilded age volume to be the antebellum and civil war volume and somewhat naively having signed one contract in 1976, i signed a second contract also in 1976, which, of course, enslaved me, i suppose one might say, for the next decade to research and write both those books. that experience growing out of also the kind of increasing awareness of the interconnection of social protests, social movements, politics and war was amplified by my experience in writing those two books, starting in 1976 and culminating in the publication in 1988 of "battle cry of freedom." i came to my point of vie

king would recite from the textbook.ad a textbook, so i'm watching and he's saying, plato says, and he, ssssssssssss -- >> yeah. >> exactly the same thing. >> yeah. >> i mean, he had this tremendous command of wordss3 and treeendous command of ideas that the ordinary person did noo have, and he was able to take you with him as he trans. as he spoke, as hh transformed just something ordinary into something magical. >> yeah. >> he had an ability that i wish i had. >> right. >> i'd pay a million dollars for it if i could, but he was just a marvel of a person. >> do we appreciate the, the fullness of his accomplishments today? you know, i, i look at martin luther king's birthday.. >> mm-hmm. >> .as a day when we should be remembering him and we should be thinking about civil rights.. >> yeah. >> .and instead for most people, it's half off mattresses. >> right. exactly. >> you know. we've turned celebration of his life and work into just another bit of trivia. >> yes. you know, and in the years before she died, his widow mrs.

. >>> hard-bound textbooks may be going the way of slide rules and typewriters in schools. education career arne duncan challenging schools and companies to get digital textbooks in students' hands within five years. but $8 billion is spent each year in the u.s. on textbooks for children and digital books are viewed as a way to provide interactive learning, save money, and get updated material faster to students but many schools lack the broadband capacity or computers or tablets to embrace this technology. >>> an army veteran from california suing the federal government because she and her wife are being denied military benefits granted to heterosexual couples. the lawsuit was announced today in washington. it involves tracy cooper harris who served in the army for 12 years and married maggie cooper harris in california in 2008. >>> the american civil electricities union suing the obama administration to force the release of details about u.s. drone strikes in yemen that killed anwar al awlaki, a suspected terrorist, and other americans. the lawsuit is directed at the defe

are giving them away for free. >> i think open textbooks are really just the beginning.gy is sweeping through not just the ways that we distribute knowledge, but also eventually the ways that we teach. >> the federal government reports the cost of textbooks have tripled since 1986. >>> if you are a kid or a kid at heart, you'll want to hear about the latest toys on display at the annual toy fair in new york city. this year's fair is nicknamed the year of the app. why? because more and more companies are turning to apps to attract computer savvy families. fox's anna coyman has details of. >> reporter: toymakers like mattel, hasbro, razor and others are capitalizing on the app world and adapting to a changing market because more parents are keeping their kids occupied with smartphones and tablet computers. >> we want to make sure our products reflect the way our consumers are spending their time and that means reflecting apps they like in terms of making products based on the apps and integrating apps into the things that we do. >> reporter: a lot of older companies are mo

textbooks were few, worn, out of date. there were no supplies, after-school lunches, sports equipment. underpaid teachers were overburdened, try iing to make due. then one day some parents from delaware, kansas, south carolina, virginia and washington, d.c. stepped on to the path. these african-american parents formed a group represented byrh school boards thato travel to schools miles away from white ones closer to their homes. their of the parents, part of the group. the closed gates were opened by the supreme court after many lawyers and thousands of people pushed against them. on may 17th, 1954, the supreme court justices announced this decision in the gabrown versus board of education which said separate schools were not through many states, towns, neighborhood, principals, teachers, parents and students. battles were fought to honor, ignore or overturn the decision. many battles were won. some quietly, some not. the demand to integrate public schools grew in a nationwide civil rights movement all races. marches, prot

. >>> seems hard bound textbook could be a thing of the past. education officials are challenging schools to go digital textbook and get kids there in five years. digital books or e-books are viewed as way to provide interactive learning. it is aimed to get kids material fast erin updating faster as well. >>> a deadline for epa administrator lisa jackson to clarify weather tracking is a threat. fracking is a method of drilling natural gas. >>> and prosecutors say dada from users of the -- data from the users of the mega upload could be deleted. prosecutors blocked access to mega upload and charged 7 men saying the site sold dozens or millions of illegal down loads and music and movies and other content. >>> eric holder will appear behalf house oversight committee on operation fast and furious today. it's a controversial operation where federal agents ran weapons that may end up in the hand of mexican drug runners. >>> the house of delegate will receive testimony on threats against the nation. high-profile witnesses attending will include cia dir

new survey shows students are paying upwards of $1200 a year on textbook as loan.uld require publishers to put the top 50 books in cheaper ebook form or online for free. an idea considered groundbreaking. >>> students are asking for relief. they no longer can afford to continue to opt-out of classes, not take classes all hurting their education. >> state auditors found costs go up because pubbishers revise books each year and the -- publishers revise books each year and the price goes up 12% with each revision. >>> a research team has designed a high efficiency charging system uses magnetic fields to wirelessly transmit large electric currents between metal coils placed several feet par the goal is to develop an all-electric highway system that charges cars and trucks as they drive going an unlimited amount of time and distance without having to stop and plug-in to recharge. >>> in siskiyou county near the oregon border police are investigating a three million dollar gold heist taken from the lobby of the county courthouse where it has been on display for decades t

apple is at the head of the class in the push for digital e- textbooks with its introduction of e-text books last month. ed begg brushing up on algebra and chemistry with hisipad. >> there's a lot of very cool content within these books, again, the ability to take advantage of experiencing something, streaming video, you know, seeing the genome rather than just reading about it. that makes a big difference. >> another advantage is students won't have to lug around 50 or 60 pounds of textbooks. it's expected that 60% of those watching sunday's super bowl will have their mobile devices handy and advertisers hope to capitalize on that with some interactive ads. those are your tech bites. i'm rob nelson. >>> news time 5:38. thanks for joining us this morning. no doubt about it, we have had some gorgeous weather lately. it's not exactly swimming weather, however, a group of talson residents really want you to think about swimming. that's because they're trying to save a proposed swim club in talson. talson wants to open a club that would open by memorial day 2013, but the future is in jeopa

there are ways to reduce cost using the textbook and online resource to search for textbook. >> jamiel aid, and if you don't qualify if you are a full or private pay student what are the questions you can ask a university to try to get dough your way? >> most importantly, fill out the free application for federal student aid. when you go to the school offer if they offer unique scholarships. do they have any programs that might be available for you. you want to know if you could take extra courses and graduate in three years. you could save up to 25% if you can accelerate the program. as well as considering the off campus housing. another way to reduce the cost while you are there. you want to make sure that the school offers those. or consider a community college for the first two years but make sure it will transfer to the school you want to go to. >> jamie: look at that in advance. i know you recommend if you fill out the financial aid, i feel like you tell me you should do it. you may not think you're qualified. look it over not once, not twice. three times. why? >> there are so m

and where the kids are today is not necessarily textbooks and work sheets. where they are today is that 97% of american teenagers play video games. and as those of you with teen majors would know, they spend an average of at least 44 hours a week in front of a tv or computer screen or another digital device. so that is where the kids are. so we took a big leap of faith and said, well, this is where civic education needs to be and we did a callout for some of the leaders in the educational field of educational technology and video games. and said we need to do this, we need to make the participation in democracy as exciting as any of these games and we did. that we created video games that are fun and exciting and engaging and i wish we could do the video screen here today, because i would share some of the games with you. i encourage you to check it out. we are at www.icivics.org, and we have our games there. we now have 16 games that cover all of the different branchs of government and in particular, some of the ones of specific interest to this conversatio

there are no official textbooks now, but there are textbooks that are endorsed. those books had a very apologetic attitude towards the soviet union. there was one draft of a major textbook that referred to stalin as a rational manager and attempted to -- and, you know, it didn't -- it acknowledged that there were crimes committed, but it said that those -- and this is very common -- very common to hear this in russia, understand the crimes in the context. time, and by not condemning the crimes measure to which they deserve condemnation, the textbooks actually justify them. they point out that stalin collected agriculture because he feared another world war, and he wanted to have the cultural sector completely under control of the government, and as a result of that, the troops were fed, the troops who defeated nazism were fed and had no supplies because there was no possibility of withholding grain. he staid stalin feared internal enemies and struck out at anyone he thought who could challenge his rule. i mean, they don't exclude the possibility that he overreact

in the book i cite a legal textbook in the one nine hundred fifty seven i believe it was and i remember one nine hundred fifty seven that is the heyday of the warren court and when we think of the triumph of the modern liberal jurisprudence in one nine hundred fifty seven a textbook would say that basically a man legally cannot be held to have raped his wife because of this principle. and it took an extraordinarily long time again it was an intel about the one nine hundred eighty s. that legislatures and courts began overturning this principle now the reason why this matters and the reason i talk about it in my book is because it points to the persistence of these private forms of domination in what we call the private sphere of the family or the workplace and that it has been the job of the left in this country and elsewhere to try to use the power of the state to overturn these private relations of domination and these have been extraordinarily ferocious struggles that have prompted the resistance of husbands of employers of slave holders and that conservatism is really the theoretica

i think that is a consensus view that you'll find leading textbooks, not everybody shares that. i don't want to say that. i think it is a consensus view that you'll finding in leading textbooks and a lot of the writings of people over the last few years with a range of political views and a range of views about whether the right way to proceed in a country is to change taxes or spending or so on. >> and my time expired. thank you. >> i'll call the office from time to time. >> please do. >> thank you. mr. woodall. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you, doctor, for staying with us throughout the morning. just so you know, i tremendously appreciate the work you and your team does. i know we're here to talk about your latest body of work. if you were in the bottom 40% of income earners in this country, you actually profit from the american income tax system. that almost half this country, i'm not talking about the refund check you get in april, i'm talking about the tax code, the tax collection system in this country sends you more money than you send to it. the privilege of being a

. >> that's never going to be in a textbook. and so now, they see o.m.g.yu as a place where they can go to get the most authentic american english that young people use. jiggly. my arms get jiggly ( speaking chinese ) >> sreenivasan: beinecke, or "bi-jee-eh," as she's known to her chinese fans, curates six social media accounts in china and the u.s. >> it starts on the weekend when i ask them ( speaking chinese ) which is, "what do you want to study next week?" and they... i get hundreds of responses every week. >> sreenivasan: o.m.g. is becoming a hit in china. on the chinese equivalent of youtube, o.m.g.'s garnered more than seven million views. and on weibo, the chinese equivalent of twitter, the program is now followed by more than 200,000 people. beinecke's bosses are taking notice. she works at v.o.a., voice of america, the 70-year-old u.s. government-funded broadcaster with programs in more than 40 languages around the world. so why is this working? >> she talks to them on their level, and i think that's something we need to replicate around v.o.a.

economics and i say that literally because paul krugman himself has written it into his textbooks that one of the reasons for prolonged unemployment spells in europe were unemployment benefits are much more generous generally is been precisely because of those on what is going to are you get unemployment benefits you get free health care you get free childcare you get out you have nothing to none of those things or have well that's what people are paying for i'll agree with you but none of those things are available in the united states people people when they're on an unemployment they're screwed and they know it and they're not trying to stand on. employment of the vast majority of around trying to just cause all of this is right but you're making a simplistic ad hominem argument when the reality is having studied psychology and economics what lachlan said is right the incentives are there i'm not saying everyone what we're saying is the incentive is there to not work if you don't have so very proud so you agree with cutting the number of available weeks for unemployment from ninety

the move to electronic textbooks sounds like a great idea, right? yesterday, are duncan unveiled guidelines for schools to make the transition to digital textbooks. the problem is cash-strapped schools to make it happen. higher prices for triple what are here to stay -- higher prices for the chipotle are here to stay. we will get numbers on weekly jobless claims on wall street. we did have a higher day for stocks yesterday. there was optimism that greece would get a financing deal. the bloomberg maryland index was up. travelers are attached to their hotel loyalty programs. 73% would choose loyalty programs over their cells. they thought it would outlast their marriage or their current job. i'm jane king for wbal-tv 11 news. >> 51 degrees on tv hill. two overtimes for the terrapins last night. keith mills will tell us if the terrapins were able to come back. >> here is a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers. denny's new sizzlin' skillets are here for a limited time. so strike while the iron's hot. starting at $4.99. only at denny's.

r from "star wars pericar >> i am in the abnormal psychology textbook. huckle is that? keep in mind, i am a pest dispenser, and now i am in the abnormal psychology textbook. >> carrie fisher has had her share of fame and problems. >> is my life was not funny, it would just be true. i have been in rehab, i have been in mental hospitals. the people you are circling with are the funniest people you have ever met. it was not funny, it would just be tragic. >> her one-woman show is now playing at the hippodrome theater. >> i get awards all the time now for being mentally ill. i am apparently very good at it. if i can get through some of the stuff i have gotten through and have it be funny, that is the best outcome you could have come to take something difficult than they get into entertainment. sort of like, i have problems, but problems don't have me. >> it has played in theaters across the country. >> to either learn stuff from life or you get beat up by it. i also say that i am a threshold guardian. there but for the sake of me go you. >> if someone offers to make you int

. >> some members of the tea party say what's in your child's textbooks may be giving them a negativeut our nation's history. >> the tea party is telling state politicians we need to tone down talk of slavery and stop making it about race. ( laughter ). >> stephen: yes, please, stop making slavery about race. everybody knows it was about economics. black people just happened to be a great investment. now, a spokesman-- ( laughter ) a spokesman for the tennessee tea party says they just want to address "made-up criticism about the founders intruding on the indians or having slaves or being hypocrites." yes, that is totally made-up criticism. the founders didn't intrude on the indians. they knockfirst, then killed them. the point is, no one-- no one's talking about rewriting history. just cutting out chunks of it. of course, that will leaf a few holes in our history books, so we adults needs to come together to get our stories straight. now,, you know, we've got to do this just in case the kids start asking uncomfortable questions like, "why is the sky blue?" and "what happened to the a

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what the university is offering a textbook publisher in exchange for dropping the prices. >>> these textbooks are kind of expensive. we have some kind of an -- kind of a problem. you can he see -- you can see it ear tash dash just before filth there is some soip sort of a truck heefe. it's a gar -- you can see one of the lanes is blocked. i believe one. vehicles there is a fire truck. it cooks -- it looks like there could, injuries. look at southbound. people are driving down to take a look at this before they drive farther south. >>> let's take a lack at the been plaza. that's backed up buttal -- it is not as big as it? -- let's take a look at the toll plaza. that's backed up. and southbound 680 at north maine. we to have a look at the peninsula. southbound 101 not tooing well, there is ap crash. dwrped on -- southbound 101 not -- is not doing well. there is a gash. let's go to steve. >>> twmps anywhere from 30. >> 40 -- terping anywhere from 30 -- 40 temperatures anywhere from 4 and mike at the airport said it loo the it's gonna be a nice day except for the testimony said it's cold. it's go

where the kids today aren't at textbooks and worksheets. we took a big leap of faith and said, well, inns where civic education needs to be. and we did a callout for some of the leaders of educational technology, educational videos games and said this is what we need to do. we need to make participation democracy as exciting as any of these games. and we did that. we created video games that are fun, exciting, engaging. i wish we could do the video screen here today because i would share some of the games with you but i encourage you to check it out. we now have 16 gaming that cover all of the branches of government, and of specific interest to this conversation, we have one that asks students to think about what value they care about in an election and then pick candidates that match those values. these are all fictional so that we're staying away from specific candidates right now. but then basically a testimony that they are matching the way that they value specific policies would be voting for in a few years. there's another gain that w

>> the textbook industry is a tricky one. because there is so much to cover that you really have to go with words of major flow of the narrative runs. the kinds of cases that we're finding here are not in a really exceptional, but they are also complicated. and textbooks often times head towards the lowest common denominator. and that is really how we wind up losing a lot of our history. >> interviews from beaumont,

we have people like kay bailey hutchison writing women's history textbooks. so it is no longer considered a brand of radical feminism to do with this history research and that is a whole other topic. but it is also true that a lot of people are just shocked by what they are learning. they never learned that women couldn't do this until 19 whatever. they didn't know that women were forbidden from serving on juries or attending princeton until 1958. so the result is a lot of folks say wait a minute, where u.k. not. and that is a natural reaction. but i would also say that once in a while, we look at somebody who is just very comfortable because the subject matter is painful. it is painful to look at the history of exclusion and assault. and so what i have to do as an academic is to say, in the discussion section, please feel free to respond as personally or angrily or emotionally as the readings in the view. in the written work you submit, you have to be professional, scholarly, empirical, reasonable. and so, that is the deal. you can say whatever you wish. all

we have to make the cake more optimum to the currency we see in the textbooks, otherwise, the euro will never be -- although a solid currency, will never deliver the potential in terms of economic growth and well-being. the backlash against integration, the integration fatigue that has been observed in many eu countries has put more and more in question the objective, the single. we are seeing concerns in france concerning an army of polish plumbers that apparently were ready to come to france and we've seen in many countries increasing resistances towards cross border takeover bids. and we have seen in many, many

a textbook pattern area of high pressure dominant making this omega shape in the jet most of the stormsgoing to spen energy trying to get through or ride it up into canada until one breaks through, not much of a change in the temperatures. they will be making snow in the morning up in tahoe in the afternoon sun and mid 40s and low 50s around yosemite. more of the same tomorrow with the warmth peaking in the mid to upper 60s, a few 70s for sunday. monday increasing clouds, still low 60s to mid 60s from the coast inland tuesday about six to send° cooler with our best -- six to 10 cooler with our best chance of rain. >>> coming up, you are going to show us? >>> marshmellow. beautiful perfect pet. >>> also, get ready for oscar sunday. >> predict the winners and go back stage during the show on february 267th. log on to abc's exclusive site >>> we are keeping an eye over the coast guard search area for a missing boater. they found in capsized boat and it fits the description that was about an hour ago they are examining it now. the boater 64-year-old man from san ramon was last seen leaving