An undercover video released Tuesday by the investigative journalist group Project Veritas shows an executive at one of America’s top textbook publishing companies and two New York state teachers insisting that the Common Core State Standards were created “to sell more books” by textbook publishing companies that are more concerned with profits than the education of America’s children.
“It’s all about the money,” Dianne Barrow, the west coast accounts manager for textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), told undercover reporters posing as political consultants interested in Common Core. “You don’t think that the educational publishing companies are in it for education do you? No. They’re in it for the money. The fact that they have to align the educational standards is what they have to do to sell the books.”
“It’s all about the money,” Dianne Barrow, the west coast accounts manager for textbook publisher Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH), told undercover reporters posing as political consultants interested in Common Core. “You don’t think that the educational publishing companies are in it for education do you? No. They’re in it for the money. The fact that they have to align the educational standards is what they have to do to sell the books.”
