Education Week – Catherine Gewertz
“You’ve read here about teachers’ sometimes-frustrating search for good instructional materials to reflect the Common Core State Standards. And you’ve also read here about the controversial criteria that the architects of the common standards drafted to guide publishers as they create such materials. Those two things are aligning in a really interesting way, with the news that 20 school districts, with a combined $2 billion in annual purchasing power, have come together to use those criteria as leverage on the publishing industry.” (more)