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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, ...

In fourth grade, students focus most on using all four operations - addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division - to solve multi-step word problems involving multi-digit numbers. Fourth-grade ...

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, ...