Missouri Education Watchdog: Are These Common Core Aligned Reading Materials Appropriate for 3rd Graders for Content and Message?

Missouri Education Watchdog: Are These Common Core Aligned Reading Materials Appropriate for 3rd Graders for Content and Message?:

Are These Common Core Aligned Reading Materiasl Appropriate for 3rd Graders for Content and Message?

by stlgretchen

Illustrations from the book “The Librarian of Basra,” among the graphic war texts approved for New York third-graders.

This may be old news to some of you as it is dated March 2013. From nypost.com and New York approves war-oriented reading textbooks for third-grade classrooms:

Tales of war, bombs and abduction — coming to a third-grade classroom near you.

City and state education bureaucrats have given the green light to an English curriculum for elementary schools that includes picture books with startlingly realistic portrayals of war — to be read by 8-year-olds.

They include “The Librarian of Basra,” which contains drawings of fighter planes dropping