What can be done to assure that students have access to the textbooks that have already been purchased so that they can follow the curriculum being taught?
This situation arises primarily in some mathematics courses, because the state of Texas has not adopted new textbooks for certain classes, in some cases for 12 years. At the same time, the Texas Essential Knowledge & Skills (TEKS), which is the state curriculum that all district are required to teach, and upon which the TAKS tests are based, have been updated numerous times. This leaves districts in the situation where the only textbooks the state has provided are outdated, because they do not align with the curriculum the state requires the district to teach. This has forced RISD to abandon the older textbooks in favor of district-developed materials that include the latest TEKS. What can be done is that the state can adopt, and fund, textbooks that align with what currently must be taught.
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- What can be done to assure that students have access to the textbooks that have already been purchased so that they can follow the curriculum being taught?
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