People learn things well when they learn it hands on in a practical environment.

 

This means that volenteer staff that process eWaste receive invaluable job traning while they help process eWaste in preperation of cost recovery and craftivist applications 

The factual information that can be pulled from the World Fact Book is invaluable.  This stuff could be the basis of a really interesting chapter in world geography and current events in a social sciences curicculum.

It would be interesting to include all subject matter from introductonary to advanced material in the same book but with different colored text or text background's to delimit information of different catagories.  This would allow an overacheiver or naturally interested person to easily research more in-depth into a subject if they wanted but would also make it easy for someone to just go over the materials that they need to complete their education track if they wished.

 

As an example a historical event could have a basic summary (middle school level) and then a more indepth analysis (high school level) and then a breakdown of sociocultural and resouce causes and implications (college level) all in the same chapter. 

Project Summary

Traditional textbooks that are used in American schools have varying degree of qualities. In many cases there is generally one type or more political or religious bias that skews the information that s included. Historical summaries are generally extremely misleading and mathmatics training materials are less and less effective.

 

Middle and High School aged people who are interested in Empowerment are in a unique postion to suppliment their current learning curriculum with independent information. We can and should provide this kind of supplimental information to help them make the time spent in classes more effective. This is also a good chance to provide a more realistic view of historical events as well as provide good materials for working with costudents as loose collectives of individuals attempting to be more effective at learning.

 

Each catagory needs to have an objectives summary that clearly defines what key topics are covered in the entire public school curriculum. These key points should be the framework for the individual subject book.  

 

Each catagory should be intended to work as their own independent book (eg. life sciences | social sciences).  The entire project should cover the series of books that cover all key points. 

 

Each book should also include a sources book that has as many of the original source materials possible.