New York City teachers recently received their new Common Core-approved textbooks — a month late — and they don’t like them one bit.
“They are loaded with errors,” said Rebecca Murphy a third-grade teacher in Queens, in a statement to the New York Daily News.
The mistakes are numerous. A third-grade workbook contains a set of questions accompanying a mismatched reading selection; one of the pages in another workbook is printed upside down; and some teacher’s manuals don’t line up with student versions.
Joy Pullman, managing editor of School Reform News and a leading critic of Common Core, told The Daily Caller that error-ridden textbooks are the result of heavy government involvement in the education sector.
“Textbook production has actually always been this slipshod, because the government education cartel essentially dictates the market, and has for decades,” she wrote in an email to The DC. “Because states and districts have controlled what books children will read, publishers have had an incentive to influence the political process as well as create a poor product, generally, because rushing the first book to market means more sales.”
The problem is likely to get worse under Common Core’s national curriculum standards, which weaken state and district autonomy in education matters.
“The really odd thing is that Common Core has been available for three years, now, and Pearson hasn’t managed to get an error-free book together yet,” wrote Pullman. “It makes one wonder about their other products, which are in millions of schools across the country.”
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/11/13/common-core-textbooks-arrive-late-filled-with-errors/#ixzz2uvmNfr6N
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