[Jonty30]

I don’t think it’s hard to understand. You create Common Core to sell textbooks. Then, 5 years down the road and it’s obvious it is not working, you print some new textbooks with new corrections and sell those.

What that works a bit better, but not good enough, you print more textbooks with more corrections.

Do this about 5 more times and pocket $200 billion dollars just to return to where the whole thing started.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

That is precisely correct.

[Fedora]

You create Common Core to sell textbooks.

And educational software and laptops, which is the computer industry's interest in this racket.

[Glad2bnuts]

Yep, Windows Windows XP, Windows 7. Create something flawed, so you can sell another slightly better or fancier version later. The suckers will eat it up.