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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we are going to copy Sweden, I can think of many other more important public policies to adopt that would do more to contribute to educational outcomes than … heavy, out-of-date textbooks. [/quote]

Do you have kids? My daughter was struggling with Algebra. I asked the FCPS teacher which textbook they were using so I could help her. He said no textbook - just endless pieces of paper, some lost, out of order, and a website that they get a link to - that is no way to learn.

The other problem is that without textbooks, you get different teachers using different resources, teaching in a different order - complete madness. Textbooks were good enough for hundreds of years - the internet has been around for 20 and we've abandoned everything that we know works. [/quote]

+1000 This. Yes, there are a lot of great things technology can do, but that does not mean that we need to throw out all of the "old" or "traditional" methods. Having a math textbook to refer back to and get practice problems for review is a hugely valuable resource that our DC's schools have discarded in favor of packets and DeltaMath/IXL. I think DeltaMath/IXL is fine, but it is not the same as a textbook.

Our school continues to use textbooks in other subjects and it makes no sense to me that math does not. [/quote]

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