missing just over a month at the beginning of school and while students are desperate for too much homework yet to finish the other parents are desperate because they're starting to get text books year.
I do not have precise numbers on this, but there always the shameful habit of increasing every year, the cost of textbooks nearly identical than at the previous year, and often the only differences that exist are in the layout.
On the one hand the malpractice of the publishers, the other of contributory negligence more or less consensual teachers are forcing many families to pay € to send their children to school.
The problem is not only Italy but also the U.S. where, however, something is being done positively for both families and for the open source community.
few days ago in The New York Times article a long interview on the Curriki project.
Curriki is an educational portal that stands out from other similar sites because it offers material for entire courses of study, all text, revised and edited by a team of experts can be downloaded and printed for free.
What Curriki is not the only experiment in scholarly publishing open source, in America there are many others who encounter alternating fortunes.
The main problem for those who want to try to work around the lobby of the producers of educational content, is to convince teachers and schools of the reliability and quality of material produced.
Behind all these projects we are sponsoring important and famous (behind the Curriki project is the former CEO of Sun Microsystems, Scott Mc Nealy), but this could be an experience from which to draw interesting ideas for a realization also Italian, enough to want it.
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