Florida’s state education agency rejected dozens of math textbooks this past spring because, officials contended, they contained common-core learning standards or violated a state law that prohibits ...
Those math textbooks and dozens more have been ditched by Florida’s Department of Education because some of the math books could indoctrinate students, according to the department. So far, state ...
South Korea has some of the highest math scores in the world. On the 2012 PISA math test, the mean score for a South Korean student was 70 points higher than for an American student. Lots of theories ...
A new group billing itself as a “Consumer Reports for school materials” will soon begin posting free online reviews of major textbooks and curricula that purport to be aligned to the Common Core State ...
Several math textbooks selected by Duval County Public Schools for next school year are in jeopardy, leaving district officials to decide if they need to figure out a backup plan. The school board ...
Earlier this year, the Seattle School Board changed the kind of math textbooks used in our elementary schools, selecting texts intended to be used with explicit instruction. Under explicit instruction ...
The nitty-gritty process of reviewing and approving school textbooks has typically been an administrative affair, drawing the attention of education experts, publishing executives and state ...
When the Florida Department of Education announced it was rejecting 54 math textbooks, it pointed to a “thorough review” process that found more than half of those books included “prohibited topics,” ...
Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Florida Department of Education have put the Escambia County School District in a bind. There is a real chance that the district will not have math textbooks for its ...
Conservatives are increasingly fighting to remove “woke” public school textbooks that present mathematics as a tool of White supremacy. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, a Republican, announced Monday that ...
After rejecting dozens of math textbooks this month for containing “prohibited topics” that included references to critical race theory, the Florida Department of Education left public elementary ...