>Almost all of them have been derisive of what they have seen as a "cash grab" for Common Core textbooks that are riddled with errors and also somewhat awful.
This would be more convincing if there were some examples of good textbooks that were scrapped, or good textbooks period. The textbook procurement process in the US has been appalling for longer than most readers of this forum have been alive.[ http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm ] Never mind that the best evidence available suggests that unsccooling, i.e. providing no systematic instruction to children whatsoever leads to a delay of one year in educational outcomes. Primary school hardly seems worth it unless the point is not education but teaching children to sit down, shut up and do as they're told. [ http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232544669_The_impact... ]
This would be more convincing if there were some examples of good textbooks that were scrapped, or good textbooks period. The textbook procurement process in the US has been appalling for longer than most readers of this forum have been alive.[ http://www.textbookleague.org/103feyn.htm ] Never mind that the best evidence available suggests that unsccooling, i.e. providing no systematic instruction to children whatsoever leads to a delay of one year in educational outcomes. Primary school hardly seems worth it unless the point is not education but teaching children to sit down, shut up and do as they're told. [ http://www.researchgate.net/publication/232544669_The_impact... ]