Welcome to the Textbook Adoption home page. The material on this site provides information about the statewide textbook adoption process in North Carolina. Textbooks are evaluated by the NC Textbook Commission based on alignment to the North Carolina Standard Course of Study and specific content area criteria. More information about the textbook adoption process, the NC Textbook Commission, the state adopted textbook list, and the Invitation to Submit Textbooks for Evaluation and Adoption in North Carolina can be found in various sections of this site.

2021 Invitation to Submit Textbooks for Evaluation and Adoption in North Carolina

The 2021 Invitation was approved by the State Board of Education on March 4, 2021. The Invitation initiates the annual evaluation and adoption of textbooks in selected subject categories for use in North Carolina schools. This document, including all attachments, provides an overview of the process for submission, evaluation and adoption of textbooks. Grades 9-12 mathematics and Career and Technical Education areas are currently under consideration for adoption. The tentative schedule in the Invitation has been updated on page 11 and others including pages 2, 11, 15, 16, 18, 20, and 96, to show recent date changes due to rescheduling the 2021 NC Textbook Commission's Deliberations and Reconsiderations Meeting.