Teaching materials have entered the printing and distribution links

Aug 27, 2022

The education ministry said, in view of the people's education press elementary school mathematics teaching material illustrations, attaches great importance to the Ministry of Education, the lines, the deployment of teaching material of countrywide middle and primary school teaching and enter the campus extracurricular reading illustrations and content has carried on the comprehensive checking, ensure the correct political orientation and value orientation, promote Chinese excellent culture and conform to the public aesthetic habits.

After the investigation and rectification work began, the Ministry of Education organized nearly 350 experts from the National Teaching Materials Committee to conduct a comprehensive review of 359 sets of 2,487 national curriculum textbooks used by primary and secondary schools. All provincial educational administrative departments have set up special classes for investigation and rectification work, organized special forces to review and read local curriculum materials of primary and secondary schools and teaching AIDS reviewed and recommended by provincial educational administrative departments, and conducted a comprehensive investigation of extracurricular reading materials entering primary and secondary schools. At the same time, ordinary colleges and vocational colleges shall conduct a comprehensive self-examination of the teaching materials used by schools, and the publishing units shall conduct a comprehensive self-examination of all the teaching materials and extra-curricular reading materials published. On the basis of comprehensive self-inspection, the Ministry of Education and provincial education administrative departments also conducted key spot checks. For the problems found, we have timely guided and urged the compilation and publication units to conscientiously complete the revision. At present, teaching materials have entered the printing and distribution links. Since late July, the Office of the Education Supervision Committee of The State Council has carried out special supervision on the investigation and rectification work, covering 31 provinces (autonomous regions and municipalities) and the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps, comprehensively supervising and inspecting the implementation and effectiveness of various investigation and rectification tasks.

In addition, the Ministry of Education has established a 24-hour handling mechanism for textbook problems reported by the society through special mailboxes. Special personnel are assigned to timely check and register the mails one by one, and carry out ledger management. By the end of August 21, a total of 1,780 emails had been received reflecting the textbook problems. Special forces were organized to analyze and judge the emails and give classified feedback to relevant publishing units and responsible departments for research and handling. To improve the quality of teaching materials is a process of hard work and excellence. In the next step, the Ministry of Education will further broaden the channel, listen to the opinions and suggestions of teachers, students and parents, improve the daily revision mechanism, and constantly improve the textbooks.


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