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District 15 Seeks Parent Input on New Textbooks
Parents of seventh- and eighth-grade students in District 15 are encouraged to visit one of the district’s four junior high schools, the Joseph M. Kiszka Educational Service Center, or the Palatine and/or Rolling Meadows libraries to preview a new social studies textbook, America: History of Our Nation, Prentice-Hall Publishing. Review copies will be available and parent feedback will be accepted through February 6.
This textbook has been recommended by the District 15 Textbook Adoption Committee, which includes representation from the district’s social studies teachers, gifted and talented teachers, special education teachers, second language teachers, administrators, and the Board of Education.
If adopted, the textbook will be used for both seventh- and eighth-grade social studies. It is aligned to Illinois State Learning Standards and will provide consistency across the District 15 junior high curriculum, replacing outdated and worn texts and materials from a variety of sources currently in use. This textbook adoption would be the first for junior high social studies texts in District 15 in more than ten years. The cost of the new textbooks would be partially covered through the Illinois Textbook Loan Program, administered by the Illinois State Board of Education. This program, authorized by the Illinois Legislature in 1975, provides for the state to purchase curriculum materials and then loan them to pupils.
America: History of Our Nation, is a just-published text. It covers time periods from pre-history of North America to current times. The series includes not only the textbook, but also both on-line and CD-ROM study guide, progress monitoring (self-tests) and skills tutor, map skills study both on-line and on CD-ROM, and related video lessons.
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