Textbooks
While textbooks are issued to students, they were not used quite as often as in traditional schools. This was caused by both a shortage on funding, and other resources phasing them out. Students still studied the state's/district's curriculum, but in more advanced and interesting ways. This has turned out to be successful for students, as they retain information better with these innovative methods, and do better on tests. However, due to the fear of falling test scores, the administrators have encouraged their teachers to stick to using textbooks more often than the successful alternative methods.
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