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Russian textbook authors say Putin needs to stop education officials from holding up their work

Source: Meduza

Sixty-nine authors of school textbooks in Russia have signed an open letter to Vladimir Putin complaining that federal education officials are unjustly delaying the release of new textbooks by subjecting them to additional expert reviews before they can be approved. The group says the federal list of approved textbooks hasn’t been updated in four years, and none of the textbooks (except for books about Russian history) has been revised substantially since 2012.

According to the letter, the Education Ministry allocated additional budget resources in 2018 to re-examine textbooks that were already evaluated in 2016 and 2017.

Russia recently divided its Education Ministry into two departments: one focused on schools and secondary education, and another dedicated to universities and research institutes. It’s unknown what effect this reform will have on the government’s textbook-approval process.

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