By Valerie Strauss WASHINGTON: To middle school teacher Chad Pavlekovich, most science textbooks are dull and lack the context students need to understand scientific principles. Thats why he is exposing students in the town of Salisbury on Marylands Eastern Shore to three new textbooks that are unorthodox in concept, appearance and substance. The Story of Science series by Joy Hakim tells the history of science with wit, narrative depth and research, all vetted by specialists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology....
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