Posted on 04/17/2022 4:17:42 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The Florida Department of Education has rejected 41% of the books submitted to it for mathematics instruction in public schools. It wasn’t that the math in the books was bad; it was that the publishers were using the books as a vehicle for pushing hard-left social issues. Even worse, the bulk of these improper books (71%) was aimed at the youngest students Kindergarten through 5th grade. At least in Florida, the government is not going to “de-educate” its students with woke math, something that’s already happening at Durham University in England.
Here's just part of the press release. You can read the rest here.
Today, Commissioner of Education Richard Corcoran approved Florida’s initial adoption list for mathematics instructional materials properly aligned to Florida’s Benchmarks for Excellent Student Thinking (B.E.S.T.) Standards. The approved list followed a thorough review of submissions at the Department, which found 41 percent of the submitted textbooks were impermissible with either Florida’s new standards or contained prohibited topics – the most in Florida’s history. Reasons for rejecting textbooks included references to Critical Race Theory (CRT), inclusions of Common Core, and the unsolicited addition of Social Emotional Learning (SEL) in mathematics. The highest number of books rejected were for grade levels K-5, where an alarming 71 percent were not appropriately aligned with Florida standards or included prohibited topics and unsolicited strategies. Despite rejecting 41 percent of materials submitted, every core mathematics course and grade is covered with at least one textbook.
Overall, Florida is initially not including 54 of the 132 (41 percent) submitted textbooks on the state’s adopted list. The full breakdown is below:
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“Makes me want to more and more move to Florida.”
Come on down, the water’s warm....
People need to realize the left never stops and never gives up until you punch them in the mouth.
Math doesn’t change. What the book publishers do is allow teachers or professors to write a chapter of a book they agree to teach from. That’s so the previous year’s books are dropped for the new by the same teacher. Years ago when I got My master’s degree I refused to buy the books at all. Finished with a 3.71 GPA.
I thought that the left never stops until you flush them in the giant toilet that you custom built to handle 100 per flush.
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