i-Ready i-Reckoning

A six-part critical investigation into ed-tech giant Curriculum Associates and its flagship product i-Ready, which is mandatory for 14 million American primary school students.

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i-Ready: Blue Ribbon Brain Rot by John Allen Wooden

Part 1: i-Ready: the Ed-Tech Snake Oil Making Kids Dumber

How Curriculum Associates’ e-learning juggernaut sucks the life out of classrooms, making kids and teachers miserable.

i-Ready's "Extraordinary Educators" Scam Turning Young Teachers Into i-Ready Shills - by John Allen Wooden

Part 2: The “Extraordinary Educators” Scam Turning Young Teachers Into Ed-Tech Shills

How i-Ready publisher Curriculum Associates exploits educators for publicity and profit using bogus awards and luxury junkets.

Part 3: i-Ready and John Hattie: A Marriage Made in Huckster Heaven

How a pseudoscience learning guru helps Curriculum Associates peddle video game addiction to fad-prone educators.

Kelly Sia & Tyrone Holmes of i-Ready/Curriculum Associates Presenting "Purposeful" Screen Time Lies

Part 4: The Screen Time Lies Powering an Ed-Tech Crisis Response

How Curriculum Associates gaslights with revisionist history and dishonest public relations word salad.

Part 5

Coming Soon.

ALL THE WORLD LOVES A WHISTLEBLOWER! Are you a current or former Curriculum Associates employee, consultant, partner or vendor? If you have information regarding the development of i-Ready and its impact on children that you would like to share, please contact me. Your identity will be kept confidential.

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Howdy. I’m a tech-traitorous writer, satirist, creative director, and dad based in Los Angeles. Having done hard time in big online media, late night TV, ad agencies, politics, and parenting, I created Epostasy as my little lab for gleefully dismembering all those self-important things. Check out my tech-skeptical kids book series, Screen Time Tales, along with other projects at johnallenwooden.com

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