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Curriculum Associates Reviews Summary

Curriculum Associates has a rating of 1.1 stars from 242 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Curriculum Associates most frequently mention 4th grade, middle school and ready causes. Curriculum Associates ranks 4148th among Education sites.

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Illinois
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Most of the people saying it's 1-star are just people who hate math and reading, which is understandable... but would you rather do IXLMath where it does NO explaining, NO help, just "you got this wrong and I'm not gonna tell you why."? I thought not. You can get coins from lessons to play games, and it gives you a break in the middle of tests. They explain your incorrect answers, and it adapts to your level of reading/math. It's not really as bad as people are saying it is!

Date of experience: December 16, 2020
California
2 reviews
40 helpful votes
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I HATE STUPID I-READY!
December 16, 2020

I HATE THIS SOOOOO MUCH! THE DUMB CHARACTERS TALK WAAAAAAAAY TO MUCH AND THEY NEED TO SHUT THEIR STUPID MOUTHS UP! THIS PROGRAM ALSO TREATS YOU LIKE A 2 YEAR OLD BABY AND PRETENDS YOU FORGOT HOW TO DO ADDITION WHEN YOU ARE IN 6TH GRADE!

Date of experience: December 16, 2020
California
1 review
146 helpful votes
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Remove terrible iReady.
December 16, 2020

I do not even know why this exists. What kind of stupid thing is this...
It sucks and nobody even likes it. If you get 3 little questions wrong in a boring lesson, they mark it as fail. Just shut up iReady, you talk too much. A few years ago when I used it, I told my teacher that it is absolute garbage. Every single student in the school just complains about this boring website. The people who created must be disowned by their parents...

Date of experience: December 16, 2020
Virginia
1 review
59 helpful votes
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-1,000,000,000 stars
December 16, 2020

I'm sure many of you do iready. This program makes you cringe and punch the screen down. Every single kid at my school HATES iready. Unforturenatly, this piece of crap is enforced tuesdays and thursdays. It takes 20-40 mins. The animation looks like a 5 yr old drew it. Speaking of 5 yr old, that piece of crap treats u like it. If you haven't tried this dumpster looking, abysmal, ugly, piece of garbage DON'T. If I could rate -1,000,000,000 I would. STAY AWAY. Parents, it will want to make your kids kill themselves

Date of experience: December 16, 2020
Louisiana
1 review
10 helpful votes
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A PIECE OF CRAP!
December 16, 2020

I-ready is the worst program anyone could do. Last year in 8th grade, I remember doing i-ready for math and ela and it got on my freakin nerves. It takes about 5 hours just to complete ONE lesson and the ratings are terrible. I HATE the animations and I HATE doing the lessons because it makes you feel like a one year old. Not only that, but if you get ONE question wrong, just ONE, it will lecture you for about 10 minutes and you can't even move on. Everyone at my school talks about how bad it is. Not only that, one time I had to do an i-ready lesson that had FOUR parts and i failed the test and i had to start all over again from the BEGINNING! Diagnostic SUCKS and it GLITCHES. If you pause the i-ready to go to the bathroom, this Dang Machine got the nerve to say "Are you there?" and then logs you out afterwards. I hate their characters, they blink only once for every sentence, and if you get a question right, they give you a whole freakin 30 min. Lecture about how you got it right. I hate i-ready and I don't recommend this piece of crap. It makes me very agitated and I feel like going through the screen itself and strangling every single horrible anime character in that Program. Here's the warning: I-ready will want to make you DIE!

Date of experience: December 15, 2020
Montana
2 reviews
28 helpful votes
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Just Delete It Already
December 15, 2020

I don't know why this thing exists. I am so over this piece of crap! First of all, you have to take a stupid diagnostic, with dumb, long questions. Then the "lessons" have these characters that are supposed to be really 'relatable' and 'rad'. And the darn lesson itself takes 45 freaking minutes to complete. This app is terrible. And then the so-called 'learning games' have no point whatsoever and are really stupid. You can tell by just looking at it that it was cheaply made. Oh, and another thing: it treats us like we're two years old. "Wow, those chickens must be hungry!" Why do they make do this stupid app? Even the name is stupid. "I-ready". Everyone hates it in our class. I swear, I am going mentally insane because of it. It's basically a torture device but in a app. And the teachers just sit there.

Date of experience: December 15, 2020
New Mexico
1 review
104 helpful votes
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SuCkS
December 15, 2020

This app sucks and is a waste of brain cells, I can literally eat a rotten cow than use this garbage. Its really horrible to be "good at this" because you get the easiest questions and some how be wrong. This is something that the government would use as a torture device for 17-5 year old kids. I hate this app and I hope it burns in hell with me when I die.

Date of experience: December 15, 2020
New York
1 review
8 helpful votes
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Horibble
December 15, 2020

"and weeded" wow this site is for KIDS and they have this people please do not use this site it is very bad

Date of experience: December 15, 2020
Colorado
1 review
36 helpful votes
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Bored of torturing your student through the good old fashioned way? No worries because I ready is the most modern and innovative way to kill your student's last brain cells!
An amazing gift for teacher's day!

Date of experience: December 14, 2020
Florida
1 review
55 helpful votes
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
December 14, 2020

They call it I-ready, but it does the exact opposite. It is poorly animated, stupid and treats 7th graders like 2-year-olds! I would rather have a lit stick of dynamite shoved down my throat. At least the result is less painful. And as a plus, this complete idiot, "Vivi P" rated it 5 stars! What?! If I could rate zero stars, I would. I-ready is the danger zone!

Date of experience: December 14, 2020
Florida
1 review
3 helpful votes
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This website is bad when i select a correct answer it says I'm wrong and then I get 50% math is not that bad but reading is hell

Date of experience: December 11, 2020
Tennessee
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Most deadly virus
December 10, 2020

It sucks its worse than the crownvirus because its trsh trash trash trash trash and its trashage can

Date of experience: December 10, 2020
Wisconsin
1 review
32 helpful votes
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Tarible
December 10, 2020

It is very boring and i rage over getting one lesson wrong you have to start the hole thing over. Hello

Date of experience: December 10, 2020
Wisconsin
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I hate I-ready
December 10, 2020

It is so stressful and annoying. I have been doing sense I was in 5th grade I am a freshman now. They never helped me and they are annoying. The lesson feel like they are babying you all the time.

Date of experience: December 10, 2020
Florida
1 review
19 helpful votes
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GARBAGE $#*! $#*!
December 9, 2020

JUST HORRIBLE. DON'T USE IT. I-READY SUCKS $#*! AND IT HACKED MY MOM'S SOCIAL SECURITY AND TOOK ALL HER MONEY AND IT KNOWS MY ADRESS AND THE ALIENS THAT WORK THERE WANT TO CONTROL US. UHH CHILE ANYWAYS- STREAM DIARY 001 BY CLAIRO AND ONE PIECE IS A GOOD-$#*! ANIME, I RECCOMEND 100%

Date of experience: December 9, 2020
Florida
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ugh such a waste of time. Doesn't even teach you anything. Yes this is my school account SUE ME.
Horrible! Hope ITT dies.

Date of experience: December 9, 2020
California
1 review
11 helpful votes
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$#*! I-Ready
December 9, 2020

I-Ready almost made my kid commit suicide. It's amazing how teachers and schools still hold on to this crap I swear If I don't see I-Ready banned I will go to I-Ready headquarters and strangle everyone there. Edit: So recently my son went to the hospital due to i-ready why? Well I-ready kept changing his answers to the wrong one, his teacher gave him suspension just for this piece of garbage for my kid's sake I went over to i-ready headquarters and made a complaint. They then said that they are not responsible for my son. He went to the hospital because he banged his head on his computer repeatedly almost killing him. I swear I need this app to get deleted NOW.

Date of experience: December 9, 2020
Ohio
2 reviews
96 helpful votes
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It causes stress and takes WAY to long to complete. As a almost middle schooler who is using this annoying and stressful program, I would rather do state testing daily then this. The whole thing is a waste of my energy. Teachers, move away from this program, for your students. It was fun when I was in first grade. Back when I enjoyed everything. Now that I am more mature, I see the pain of I-ready. The stress and anxiety. Therefore, DON'T USE I-READY!
Edit: I have matured, and I have thankfully improved my writing skills, as well as stopped using this program. Last time I was on there, I saw that it said that 29 x 49 = 1937, even though the true answer is 1421. To put it short, I-Ready has a lot of errors. Teachers, even though my 5th grade self was dramatic, please try to find an alternative to I-Ready.

Date of experience: December 8, 2020
Oregon
1 review
34 helpful votes
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I have gotten the same questions since 4th grade, i am currently in 8th grade and can do several tests from memory. It treats me like im 5 and is physically painful to use. I am writing this instead of doing iready for school because i will learn more from reading these reviews than i will from spending 3 hours doing iready. If you get an iready assignment just dont do it; it is a waste of your time and will make you want to commit arson in their server room. Honestly just read some articles on this actual hellsite.

Date of experience: December 8, 2020
Indiana
1 review
8 helpful votes
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This program moves at a snail's pace. I have a 6 year old in kindergarten who appears to be in pain when doing these incredibly slow math lessons. They are far too easy for him. Then I have a 7 year old in second grade who I can't keep seated because these little aliens are moving and speaking ten times slower than he reads. The lessons are 30-40 minutes long, and I only know this because I sat there and did 2nd grade "math" for over an hour! And what did that "math" consists of?! 30% of the time was actually moving blocks into different columns, 60% was waiting for these alien characters to finish talking, and 10% was the ungodly long pauses between screens! This is ridiculous!

Date of experience: December 7, 2020