Va. textbooks updated online Web-based physics curriculum touted by officials, educators Physics textbooks in some Virginia public schools are so outdated that instruction on the physics of television does not include LCD or plasma technologies and stops with the cathode ray tube. Similarly, advances in nanotechnology, particle physics and dark matter fall into an educational black hole in some textbooks, which can take years to replace and update.

College and career planning is now the bailiwick of a wizard. Virginia’s community-college system yesterday launched a Web site, the Virginia Education Wizard, to help guide high school students and others who are trying to decide on a career and where to go to college.