Wasted Billions on Commercial Curricula and Duplicated Teacher Effort

Summary

Every year, billions of tax dollars are spent on commercial math curricula while millions of educators spend nights and weekends creating lesson plans from scratch. This massive duplication of effort goes unsolved, as no public, peer-reviewed, open-source sharing system exists. Current solutions like Teachers Pay Teachers cost teachers money and lock resources behind paywalls. This unsolved problem causes severe frustration, inequity, and waste, with educators demanding a mandatory, state-backed 'Curriculum Commons' to share and peer-review resources for free.