Calilfornia has launched an initiative for free, open textbooks for high school math and science.
Very nice to see such a high profile announcment. A little hard to see how CDE could pull this off by fall, 2009 with as much difficulty as they seem to have with other things, though.
On a related note, I’m working on a concept paper for open educational resources development for upper elementary and middle school (suitable for an EETT grant). Stay tuned for more details. Contact me if you’re interested in a collaboration on this.
CA launches open textbook initiative