Schools Matter: . . . and miles to go before 4th grade

Schools Matter: . . . and miles to go before 4th grade:

. . . and miles to go before 4th grade

by Jim Horn

For those bigots with low expectations who have been whining about the eradication of imaginative literature from the Common Core National Standards and National Testing Delivery System (CCNS/NTDS), you may be interested to know that I have uncovered a trove of literary gems among the Standards. Just go to Appendix B of the national standards, the same ones that the New York Times reports today will cost the City of New York $56,000,000 for new textbooks this coming year.  To provide some point of comparison, NYC spent a little over $13,000,000 this past year for math and English AND classroom library books:

The $56 million estimate is based on an expectation that 70 percent of schools will adopt the curriculums the city’s Education Department is recommending, the officials said. They said that while downloading state curriculums was free, the costs of acquiring workbooks and texts would bring the cost close to the city’s $56 million estimate. 

The city will procure the materials through five vendors, including the state’s