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 ...
Districts are already making large financial investments into core programs. So why are they still buying more resources to ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
INVESTIGAT.ED NOTHING WAS FOUND, AND STUDENTS RETURNED TO CLASS RIGHT BEFORE NOON. LUA: THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION REJECTED MORE THAN 50 NEW MATH BOOKS, IN PART BECAUSE OF CONCERNS ABOUT ...