Common Core readers are racist, sexist, classist, and earned company lots of money

[LWolf]

20. "Reading Horizons" is one of the many

for-profit publishing companies that feed at the public money trough. All of them claim to be aligned with whatever framework or standards are currently adopted. Common Core State Standards do not require racism, at least, not those that I've had to adopt. Whether or not the standards are worthy of spending our time, energy, and other resources on is a different topic.

Prior to the Common Core, when each state had it's own set of standards (and a few still do,) the publishers generally pandered to California and Texas (!), since they have the highest populations.

It's a perpetual cycle. The adoption of the CCSS by most states has led to scrambling to find aligned materials, with many publishers rushing in to get a place at the trough. My district is adopting out-of-cycle to try to make the shift; some of the adoptions are called "temporary bridges," knowing that more will be available as time goes on.

Some of what my district is using is problematic. Nothing like this, though. I wish Roxanne Berger had the support she deserves.

I do. I'm not teaching that "bridge" this year. I fought it, my admin backed me, and I was allowed to choose a better "bridge" to pilot.