A typical 8th grade math textbook includes just a handful of real-world problems for students to solve, finds a new international study. And that’s not enough, according to William Schmidt, ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — The Florida Department of Education has released examples of what it calls "problematic elements" within textbooks recently reviewed and rejected by the department. The examples ...

In a decision that underscores long-standing rifts over how to teach mathematics, Texas officials have rejected one of the most widely used elementary textbooks in the country in that subject after ...

Racial prejudice and emotional learning are just two of the many "prohibited topics" cited as "impermissible" by the Florida Department of Education (FLDOE), which has announced why it banned 41 ...

The math textbooks rejected by the state of Florida included word problems that discuss racism and practicing empathy with others, according to examples released Thursday by the Department of ...

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 ...

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,” ...

Some Florida schools are finally getting to buy their math textbooks — two weeks after state officials rejected dozens of books on grounds they would teach “prohibited topics.” More textbooks have won ...

Florida's Republican-led government has some of the strictest rules outlawing critical race theory (CRT) in classrooms. On Friday, the state's education department said it rejected dozens of school ...

After math textbooks were recently rejected by the Florida Department of Education because it said they contain “prohibited topics” like critical race theory, the department released examples of what ...