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 ...
Florida education officials have released four images from some of the math textbooks the state rejected this month, citing what they said were references to critical race theory or other “prohibited” ...
In a decision that underscores long-standing rifts over how to teach mathematics, Texas officials have rejected one of the most widely used elementary textbooks in the country in that subject after ...
(Editor's Note: This story has been altered. The original version of this story gave the wrong percentages for the students who passed the math portion of the WASL last spring.) Rick Burke remembers ...
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 ...
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 ...
A textbook company established at Rice University is the only publisher approved for general K-5 mathematics books in Florida after statewide efforts to crack down on instructional materials ...
Nearly 6,000 pages of documents released by the Florida Department of Education shed new light on why 54 math textbooks were rejected. The agency said the books included lessons on critical race ...
One math textbook was approved by the state after a review process showed pictures portrayed Blacks primarily as athletes. Another, under the same vetting process, was flagged because it put an ...
The Florida Department of Education announced on Friday that it is rejecting 41 percent of math textbooks submitted by publishers for its K-12 curriculum, claiming that some contained critical race ...
In 2018, Petra Menz, a senior lecturer in mathematics, was facing a problem: the textbook for two required courses in the social sciences calculus stream was going out of print. Fueled by a desire to ...
In today’s technologically-charged world, two professors at Dean College in Massachusetts have decided to give their teaching tools a modern update — by replacing textbooks with digital and Web-based ...