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Multi-state curriculum to yield more textbook choices
- 04-01-2011
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By Louis Freedberg/California Watch
An unexpected byproduct of 41 states adopting common curriculum standards is that California schools won't be limited to textbooks and other instructional materials developed specifically for the state. Some state education experts are saying that the "common core" standards, as they're known, could result in a new marketplace of instructional materials, which could yield learning products that are more creative and perhaps even cheaper than what the state has had access to in the past. This week California Watch reported that under current scenarios K-8 math textbooks will be ready for use in California classrooms in 2019, and English language arts textbooks for the same grades in 2021. By law, the State Board of Education is required to adopt textbooks for K-8 grades. Even under normal circumstances, the procedure for doing so is a convoluted, multi-year process – one which has become even more drawn out because of a state prohibition on the State Board of Education to even get the ball rolling for several years. (more...)
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