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 ...
The Aspen School District’s new elementary-level math books received a mixed review before the School Board Wednesday. Administrators, board members and educators discussed the state of the district’s ...
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.
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 ...
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,” ...
Math is everywhere, from the gas station and grocery store to the stock market and science magazines. And it shows up, of course, in schools at all levels. But the educational system doesn’t provide ...
Thousands of pages of math textbook reviews were released on Thursday by the Florida Department of Education. Florida announced on April 15 that it rejected 54 math textbooks, claiming many were ...