A textbook company contracted to produce materials under the Common
Core State Standards is trying to teach students as young as second
grade about economic fairness by praising unions, protests and labor
leader Cesar Chavez, according to an education watchdog group.
As part of the plan, students spend a week reading “Harvesting Hope,”
a book about Chavez written by children’s author Kathleen Krull, and
then discuss what the lesson plan calls “scales of fairness,” which
compare the living conditions of farm workers to that of land owners.
“Fairness and equality exist when the scales are balanced,” teachers
are prompted to instruct the students. They are then supposed to ask the
students whether both sides, as presented in the plan, are equal,
providing a correct answer of “no” in the teachers’ guides.
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Thursday, October 24, 2013
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