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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 ...
A new study finds that Houghton Mifflin California Math produced larger achievement gains than any other textbook. Study: Some Elementary Math Textbooks Are Better Than Others ...
Florida's Education Department rejected more than 40 percent of math textbooks from publishers who sought to sell their books to school districts. It pointed to examples of "critical race theory ...
The day of vindication may be at hand for otherwise intelligent people who were humbled or even humiliated by a monster named calculus in high school or college. Perhaps it wasn’t entirely th… ...
In this Dec. 11, 2014 photo, a public school teacher shows a textbook page with the biography of Venezuela's former President Hugo Chavez at the school's library in Caracas, Venezuela.
“Math textbooks’ merit should be evaluated in terms of how effectively they help students learn mathematical concepts.” In Florida, lawmakers banned the teaching of critical race theory in ...
Ross Lee Finney III, 67, mathematician who wrote high school and college textbooks on calculus. Born in Springfield, Mass., Finney earned bachelor’s, master’s and doctoral degrees in math at ...
The state rejected more than 50 math textbooks — about 40% of those submitted. Despite the state's disapproval, under Florida law individual districts can still buy the texts if at least half ...
Florida DOE releases examples of problematic textbooks; In fact, instead of math whizzes, LaGrone found reading teachers, social science educators, and history buffs were also among the state’s ...
In June 2021, the Florida Department of Education sent a memo to the publishers of math textbooks, advising them not to include “social-emotional learning and culturally responsive teaching ...
A Cal State Fullerton math professor was reprimanded by the university after he used less expensive – and in his view, better – textbooks instead of a $180 text written and mandated by his ...
The Alachua County school district approved four of 11 textbooks for math courses. The approval of so few books is odd, board members said.