A student teacher at P.S. 59 was horrified when she was told to photocopy and distribute a fourth grade homework assignment with "Slavery Word Problems" where the questions were "On a slave ship, ...

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For the first few years of school, struggling readers can usually get by. The material is simple, the lessons are repeated often, and intensive remedial help is common. But for some of those pupils, ...

Segue Institute for Learning teacher Cassandra Santiago introduces a lesson on word problems to her first graders one spring afternoon. Credit: Phillip Keith for The Hechinger Report The Hechinger ...