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 ...
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 current approach to curricular resources in the United States might seem to indicate that the textbooks any given school uses doesn’t matter much. Many states and districts don’t know what ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Florida education officials have reinstated nine math textbooks after their publishers scrubbed them of “woke” content prohibited by Sunshine State law. “Publishers are aligning their instructional ...
Seattle public high schools this fall will use new math textbooks that have stirred controversy for their less-traditional teaching methods. The Seattle Public Schools Board of Directors on Wednesday ...
A group of eighth-grade math teachers have written a letter, weighing in on the months-long controversy triggered by the use of a textbook, "College Preparatory Mathematics," this year in what the ...
My column on math textbooks and the column of two weeks earlier on educational reform each make reference to my son’s teachers in the Seattle Public Schools. There were several fine ones, but the one ...