Common Core Is Corporate Welfare for Textbook Giants
6th June 2014
Opponents of Common Core have plenty of ammunition by now: The standards erode local autonomy, are costly to implement, and some experts dispute their rigor.
But an underexplored aspect of this problematic national education reform is the massive financial incentive that certain textbook and standardized test companies have to keep the U.S. on board with it. The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss provided a good example of Common Core’s crony corporatist side in a recent article.