A critical investigation into ed-tech giant Curriculum Associates and its flagship product i-Ready, which is mandatory for 14 million American primary school students. By Late Night TV vet 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.
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.
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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.
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.
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i-Ready Sued For False Advertising & Brazen Science-Washing
Curriculum Associates, the ed-tech publisher of ubiquitous classroom gerbil wheel i-Ready, is facing a new theatre of legal woes: this time over false advertising claims that its product is educationally legitimate. In a landmark lawsuit filed July 31st in Washington D.C., …
Brainrot Video Games Are i-Ready's Oblivious Back-to-School Bonus!
Curriculum Associates National Director Mark Bernstein has big back-to-school news: i-Ready “learning” platform will now have — what else? — even *more* brain-melting VIDEO GAME content.
The i-Ready Revolt Goes Mainstream
NBC’s Tyler Kingkade interviewed my son Ward and me for “The revolt against i-Ready: Private equity-backed software faces parent, teacher and student fury,” in which he confirmed many elements of my own investigation, and covered important new ground.
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.
About John Allen Wooden:
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
