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New standards open new books; Rules cover language, math, arts.(NEWS)

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From: Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
Date: 20041115
Author:Draper, Norman

Byline: Norman Draper; Staff Writer

Authors Oscar Wilde, Charles Dickens and Aldous Huxley are some of the new picks for the juniors at Burnsville High. The freshmen at North High School in North St. Paul will have to get three more terms of math than the Class of '05. And the new direction in math - more equations and fewer word problems - means the Robbinsdale district's middle schools had to get new textbooks at a cost of $147,000.

The state's new rules for what students need to know in language arts, math and arts - plus new course credit requirements - have brought ...

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