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Eastern York board hears teacher complaints about McGraw Hill math pilot, asks vendor fixes and data report
Summary
Teachers and board members raised persistent technical and content problems with the district's McGraw Hill math rollout at the secondary level; administration said it has escalated issues to the vendor, is collecting teacher feedback and will ask the vendor for fixes and a project-manager briefing.
Board members and teachers told the Eastern York School Board on Thursday that the district's first-year rollout of McGraw Hill's math suite has produced recurring technical errors and implementation headaches, especially at the middle- and high-school levels.
"There was a lot of program errors," said a board member who spoke during the discussion, summarizing teacher reports that included wrong answer keys, missing numbering and display glitches. Teachers and some parents said students sometimes saw correct work marked incorrect by the software, producing frustration in class.
Administrators acknowledg…
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