Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Costs $22 Million in One Alabama District

Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core Costs $22 Million in One Alabama District:

Common Core Costs $22 Million in One Alabama District

by stlgretchen

Pearson is really cleaning up in the Huntsville, Alabama school district.  From The Report Card andPearson $22 Million Contract With Huntsville AL Schools Exposed:

Editor: The Report Card has published a series of articles pro and con about on the Common Core K-12 Standard now required in 46 states. Diane Ravtich, and Sandra Stotsky well known educational reformers have come out against the Common Core saying. Dr. Stotsky has asserted that the CCS will drive up costs and lower literary and educational standards. Paul Horton, history teacher at the University of Chicago Laboratory School has documented that Pearson, a $9 Billion publishing giant and CCS supplier has engaged in influence peddling. Diane Ravitch said: Pearson is overstepping the bounds of the role of a profit-making business. The corporation is acting as a quasi-government agency in several