That’s what I argue in my latest “What Next” for Education Next.
Great Minds* didn’t even exist 10 years ago, and only went into the curriculum-development business when it won a contract from New York State to build a set of free, online math lessons as part of the state’s Race to the Top (RTT) grant. The resulting curriculum, originally known as “EngageNY,” spread rapidly nationwide, and a 2015 RAND survey found that an astonishing 44 percent of elementary school teachers in Common Core states reported using EngageNY at least once a week, more than any other math program, and 13 percent said they used Eureka Math.
Read more to find out why Eureka (a.k.a. EngageNY Math) has been so uncommonly successful.
*Fordham helped to incubate Great Minds in the late 2000s, back when it was known as Common Core, Inc.
