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 ...
The Consumer Reports-style reviews of common-core instructional materials posted by EdReports.org are incomplete, contain errors, and misrepresent what’s important in the common standards, claim two ...
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 ...
There is no shortage of popular books and lectures on math—but they can only teach us so much. Mathematics has long been presented as a sanctuary from confusion and doubt, a place to go in search of ...
Understanding maths, logic and computation is becoming increasingly important in business -- especially if you need to evaluate new technology. Can your wi-fi router or your smartphone really make you ...
The debate over the best textbook to use for math instruction will get a public airing in Bellevue Feb 24. A group of parents have organized a math night from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Wilburton ...
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,” ...
Upcoming reviews of social studies and science books have the potential to get heated. Science textbooks will be up for adoption in Florida in two years, in time to be an issue in the 2024 election.
It was the equivalent of: “Show your work.” To help explain its puzzling rejection of dozens of math textbooks, the state of Florida released nearly 6,000 pages of reviewer comments this past week and ...
LAKELAND, Fla. (WFLA) – Florida schools, including in the Polk County School District, are now a battleground in the country’s culture wars. “I am concerned about our culture,” Paul Hatfield of Polk ...