Reading, writing textbooks recommended by Department of Education are 'loaded with errors': teachers
By Rachel Monahan / NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
It's a bungled effort to boost standards.
Teachers across the city are reporting problems with the new reading and writing textbooks recommended by the Department of Education. Not only were books delivered more than a month into the school year in some cases, but the lessons from testing and publishing giant Pearson are poorly planned, too long and full of mistakes.
“They are loaded with errors,” said Rebecca Murphy, a third-grade special education teacher at Public School 91 in Queens.
The mistakes include a third-grade workbook page on the text “The Case of the Gasping Garbage” that asks students questions about another reading entirely, a page in a kindergarten workbook printed upside down, and teachers’ manuals that simply don’t match the student texts.
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