An 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.
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.
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:
Coming May, 2026
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
