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 ...

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 ...

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,” ...

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 ...

To explain its puzzling rejection of dozens of textbooks, the state released 6,000 pages of comments, revealing an often confusing and divisive process. By Dana Goldstein and Stephanie Saul It was the ...

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.

Sine, cosine and a lot of tangents. Textbook publishers have routinely transmitted political messaging to kids under the cover of objective math instruction, according to a review by Florida officials ...

The nitty-gritty process of reviewing and approving school textbooks has typically been an administrative affair, drawing the attention of education experts, publishing executives and state ...

A Consumer Reports-style review of math instructional materials that called out nearly all the curricula evaluated for failing to align to the common-core standards is now coming under attack for its ...

Wake County officials are reviewing how the school system teaches math and the use of digital materials to do so. The Wake County Public School System began gathering feedback began Monday with school ...

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 ...

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 ...