The Great Common Core Textbook Swindle

Not For Teacher

Only one in eight Common Core-aligned textbooks meets Common Core standards, but they were still repackaged and sold to schools, at taxpayers’ expense.

Published Jul. 8 2015 1:03AM EDT

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Cheryl Schafer was a veteran math teacher by the time Common Core arrived in New York back in 2010. It was apparent to her almost immediately that teachers didn’t have the materials they needed to teach to the new national standards.

Take a middle school staple like the Pythagorean Theorem: “One...

Matt Collette

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The Great Common Core Textbook Swindle

Only one in eight Common Core-aligned textbooks meets Common Core standards, but they were still repackaged and sold to schools, at taxpayers’ expense.

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Matt Collette