Curriculum Associates

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Berkshire Partners, Curriculum Associates.

Oh, who's supporting it?

TA Associates, [lips smack] uh, Accelerate, Blue Haven Initiative, General Catalyst Partners, Guggenheim Securities-

It's the way NWEA Map works.

It's the way Curriculum Associates product works.

I've told you that our tests, ma-- Uh, STAR, uh, and, uh, Fast Bridge work like this.

Uh, and, and these are examples and, and we also call tests that do this, often we call them general outcome measures.

And Jen, only because you just brought up i-Ready, I'm looking at my phone because this morning I got my second grader's i-Ready scores.

And look, uh, Curriculum Associates, come on the podcast.

I don't know enough about your product.

Like, I'm a new par- not a new parent, but a new user of this data.

But, like, is he underperforming because we don't use iPads i- at the home? And do I need to, like, increase iPad usage to increase i-Ready? Like, I'm, I, I'm looking at this data and I'm like, I'm confused as a ed tech person for 19 years.

I can only fathom what parents are reviewing scores and being like, "What happened here? You overperformed.

You underperformed." We're at, like, a highly gifted school, but I'm looking at this stuff and I'm like, "Hmm, I'm kind of confused." So Curriculum Associates, w- free rein- free invite.

Please come on.

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... uh, particularly i-Ready, uh, from, um, I think it's, uh, Curriculum Associates is the, the owner of i-Ready, and the MAP test from NWEA.

The whole edifice amounts to a, anyw- estimated, extrapolated, um, and this is from EdFirst, amounts to anywhere between $3 and $5 billion just on spending on testing nationally.

So a lot of these tests are required by the districts beyond what the state does and beyond what the federal government does.

And the ratings were around 50%.

So about half the time, and I'll get that report you can put in the episode notes, but generally about half the time, the parental controls are not doing what the company says that it does, or they don't work correctly, or sometimes they've just been removed entirely.

And so the parental controls on a whole on social media platforms are unreliable, very difficult to turn on.

The social media companies know that very few parents use the parental controls, and so they don't see the value in putting a lot of resources into creating them.

What has happened here is big tech companies like Google and Apple and These huge billion dollar companies have infiltrated our schools and they're making billions of dollars off of kids and their data.

They're collecting our kids' data and sharing and selling it to third parties.

I have filed a lawsuit against the company Curriculum Associates that makes a platform called iReady.

who we allege has taken and shared a bunch of my children's data.

left there and migrated to a

full-on education company called Curriculum Associates.

I came out of there and went to work for BAUM USA, who many of your listeners probably have heard of before.

And from there, I got to know HumanWare a good bit throughout my time at Kurzweil and with BAUM.