Textbooks ‘too simple’

19th October 2007, 1:00am

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Textbooks ‘too simple’

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A writers’ union has written to the Government to complain that the rise of textbooks endorsed by exam boards is damaging education. The Society of Authors said that school textbooks often lacked depth and encouraged children to believe there were simple answers in all areas of learning.

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