A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected (NYT)

[Nevilledog]

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Dana Goldstein
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1. 🚨 We reviewed 21 of the math textbooks rejected by Florida for "prohibited" topics. Almost nothing in there on race. What we found: lots of "social-emotional learning" content that the state doesn't want. What is SEL? How did it become controversial?

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A Look Inside the Textbooks That Florida Rejected
The state rejected dozens of math textbooks. The New York Times reviewed 21 of them to figure out why.
4:36 AM · Apr 22, 2022

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/22/us/florida-rejected-textbooks.html

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After the Florida Department of Education rejected dozens of math textbooks last week, the big question was, Why?

The department said some of the books “contained prohibited topics” from social-emotional learning or critical race theory — but it has released only four specific textbook pages showing content to which it objects.

Using online sample materials provided by publishers to Florida school districts, The New York Times was able to review 21 of the rejected books and see what may have led the state to reject them. Because Florida has released so few details about its textbook review process, it is unknown whether these examples led to the rejections. But they do illustrate the way in which these concepts appear — and don’t appear — in curriculum materials.

In most of the books, there was little that touched on race, never mind an academic framework like critical race theory.

But many of the textbooks included social-emotional learning content, a practice with roots in psychological research that tries to help students develop mind-sets that can support academic success.

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So they just don't want anything that will hamper raising their kids to be monsters....

[Walleye]

1. All parents should be required to go to mandatory curriculum meetings at night

The truth is most parents couldn’t care less what’s happening in the kids classroom. They never cared before all this ask any teacher. It’s all about their own grown-up perverted politics

[Deuxcents]

2. Al this imaginary concern is for..

The governor’s connections to the only publisher allowed. I’m shocked 😱

[keithbvadu2]

3. The only content important to DeSantis is the page with the company name that printed/sold the textb

The only content important to DeSantis is the page with the company name that printed/sold the textbooks.