Patrick Riccards at Eduflack warns educators not to be fooled by vendors’ cart-before-the-horse claims that their products are “Common Core certified” or “approved.” It’s true that most states have signed on to the Common Core State Standards Initiative and that it will likely play a role in ESEA reauthorization, he writes, but:
... [W]e still don't know what Common Core looks like in the schools and THERE IS NO ONE TO APPROVE ANYTHING ON BEHALF OF COMMON CORE! No one is certifying or approving on behalf of CCSSI. At a time when states and districts are worried about Common Core...we have vendors marketing their wares to those concerns, promising the magical elixirs that will fix everything.