Retired teacher & saw this all the time. Everything is renamed, rebooted, & nothing good comes out of it. Well yes something does: a whole lot of the school district’s money to, as you brilliantly put it, “the sham wow” grifters. The only difference is that the as seen on tv stuff usually works & does what it states.
The grifter market in education is HUGE! We always wondered what goodies the administration got for adapting yet another soon to be forgotten scam.
The grifter market in education is HUGE!Which is why we were given a "new and better" pedagogical strategy to implement at the beginning of every school year, only to be replaced by the next best thing the next year.