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Virginia to Tighten Textbook Reviews

By The Associated Press — January 11, 2011 1 min read
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Virginia’s education department plans to tighten its textbook-review process after experts discovered a multitude of factual errors in state-approved history books.

Education department officials said that Superintendent of Public Instruction Patricia Wright plans to propose to the board of education this month that publishers be required to provide documentation that their books have been reviewed by “competent authorities who vouch for their accuracy.”

Ms. Wright also wants the department of education to more closely scrutinize textbooks that teachers and others on review committees have recommended for preliminary approval.

A version of this article appeared in the January 12, 2011 edition of Education Week as Virginia to Tighten Textbook Reviews

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