http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/are-math-textbooks-ready-for-common-core/2014/02/24/b937a3a0-9d61-11e3-9ba6-800d1192d08b_story.html
One of the reasons it's important for teachers and districts to have some skill evaluating curriculum and its alignment to standards is that you can't always trust the publisher to do their own alignments correctly. Yes, in some cases publisher alignment comes down to slapping a "CCSS-Aligned!" sticker on the cover, but in other cases it can appear to be quite meticulous, with lesson-by-lesson alignments shown in margins of teachers guides or in vast tables with marks where lessons and standards...
One of the reasons it's important for teachers and districts to have some skill evaluating curriculum and its alignment to standards is that you can't always trust the publisher to do their own alignments correctly. Yes, in some cases publisher alignment comes down to slapping a "CCSS-Aligned!" sticker on the cover, but in other cases it can appear to be quite meticulous, with lesson-by-lesson alignments shown in margins of teachers guides or in vast tables with marks where lessons and standards...