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 prohibits ...

Update: After this story originally ran, the Florida education department issued several screenshots of “problematic examples” in the textbooks. “These examples do not represent an exhaustive list of ...

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 ...

(Editor's Note: This story has been altered. The original version of this story gave the wrong percentages for the students who passed the math portion of the WASL last spring.) Rick Burke remembers ...

Students take part in a fifth-grade math class in Hillsboro. (Brent Wojahn / The Oregonian / 2013) Leaders at the Oregon Department of Education , set to begin this spring, by two years. If the Oregon ...

Recently, my daughter’s dance studio did something revolutionary — they adopted an exam system for their pupils. Their reasoning for this was shocking: In order to ensure their student’s progress in a ...

CARACAS, Venezuela – Students here study math by calculating the benefits of government land takeovers. They practice English by reciting where late President Hugo Chavez was born and learn civics by ...

The Florida Department of Education announced Friday the state has rejected more than 50 math textbooks from next school year’s curriculum, citing references to critical race theory among reasons for ...

Days after announcing that it had rejected 41 percent of math textbooks submitted by publishers — some of them because of references to critical race theory and other “prohibited” topics — the Florida ...

To someone passing by, it may look like the students in Blue Lake Elementary’s morning learning lab are playing computer games. Dozens of students sit down at computers or iPads before school starts ...

In 2018, Petra Menz, a senior lecturer in mathematics, was facing a problem: the textbook for two required courses in the social sciences calculus stream was going out of print. Fueled by a desire to ...