Science4Us just participated in it's first adoption. It was the Texas State Science Adoption. They did it via a third party that put together a coalition. This has me thinking about the adoption buying process and how Texas issues its proclamation of science K8 curriculum adoption.
The adoption process by states and school districts is a high-stakes way of buying and selling. Many states, primarily in the SE of the US, do a periodic (every 6 years for instance) adoption of curriculum for the state. A rotation might be:
Year 1 - Reading
Year 2 - Language Arts & Writing
Year 3 - Math
Year 4 - Science
Year 5 - Social Studies
Year 6 - Other
And repeat...
What the adoption means varies by state. Sometimes they select one curriculum and all the districts and schools must adopt it. Or they pick several and let the schools and districts decide among the short-list. Sometimes they allow the schools to buy from the adopted curriculum with state funding assistance but not if they buy outside of the adopted.
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