ABOUT US
Consumer Rated Shopping (CRS) was created by teachers--who also happen to
be on-line shoppers--to support the work of the Center for Innovation in
Education (Center). The Center is a non-profit educational organization,
that was co-founded in 1975 by two classroom teachers, Mary and Bob Baratta-Lorton.
Mary and Bob shared the belief that all children can learn and that every
child matters. Together, Bob and Mary developed curriculum in mathematics
and reading to help elementary school teachers implement this philosophy
in their classrooms.
The Center's mathematics curriculum is embodied in the books Mathematics
Their Way and Mathematics a Way of Thinking, which are used by classroom
teachers
and home-schooling parents alike. Without the use of any outside funds
or government
financing, the Center has grown to be the leading provider of mathematics
inservice and training in the country. Nearly 300,000 teachers across the
United States and Canada have participated in Center workshops.
The Center's reading curriculum is embodied in the Dekodiphukan (Decode-if-you-can)
Reading Program, which is in use in nearly 2,000 classrooms across the
country, but which has not yet been published commercially.
To learn more about the Center for Innovation in Education, click on the
For Teachers button in the menu bar. For teachers, or parents who teach
at home, there are free curriculum materials available for downloading
from the
site.
To learn about Mary Baratta-Lorton, click on the
Mary Baratta-Lorton link.
100% of the profit earned from Consumer Rated Shopping goes to support
the teaching activities of the Center for Innovation in Education in both
mathematics
and reading.
ABOUT CRS
Simple, safe, secure online shopping.
No pop-ups.
No paid advertisements of any kind.
No memberships.
No e-mail addresses collected for use at any other time.
CRS accepts continued input from you to keep our information current. We investigate
any concerns you express about merchants listed here. If the concern is not dealt
with satisfactorily by the merchant, the merchant is removed from our site.
CRS does not accept any advertising from any of the sites we list, so there
is no monetary motive for our keeping a site listed if you and we feel
it
should be removed.
CRS does not accept payments for the ranking order of the sites on our
lists. No merchant can obtain a higher listing on our site than another
by paying
us a fee for a better position. The sites we include for listing are displayed
in rotating random order so that each site has an equal opportunity
to head its list, and each site takes its turn at the bottom of the order.
CRS guards your privacy. We do not require you to register a user name
or password to access our site. If you send us your e-mail address so that
we
may respond to a concern, your e-mail address is used only for our reply.
You do not have to click a box to opt-out of mailings because we have no
opt-in choice for you to make. We
do not barter, trade, sell, or give your e-mail address or any other information
about you to anyone.
CRS provides you the information you need to know when it is safe to shop
on-line and when it is not. Click on the Security button on the Menu Bar
to learn more.
