Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, and his co-authors published the article in the journal Teachers College Record.
Jeffrey Carpenter, associate professor of education and director of the Teaching Fellows program, Matthew Koehler (Michigan State University), Catharyn Shelton (Northern Arizona University), and Spencer Greenhalgh (University of Kentucky) co-authored an article in the peer-reviewed journal Teachers College Record.
The article, titled “Where Does all the Money Go? Free and Paid Transactions on TeachersPayTeachers.com” is available online here. The article abstract reads as follows:
Online curricular marketplaces such as TeachersPayTeachers.com (TPT) are challenging conventional notions of curriculum, the professionalization of educators, and the exchange of capital in P-12 education. In this research note, we explore these issues by presenting an accounting of: (a) the size and scope of TPT, (b) the number of TPT resources being downloaded, and (c) the financial transactions associated with TPT educator-storefronts. Findings indicated that TPT hosted 4,018,173 classroom resources from 208,748 educator-sellers with 1.5 billion all-time downloads and $3.9 billion in total sales. 69% of all TPT downloads were of free materials. However, an overwhelming 81% of total TPT sales were attributed to the top 1% of educator-sellers (n = 1,524). TPT’s massive scope suggests it has introduced an important disruption in P-12 curriculum, with implications for the professionalization of educators. Furthermore, TPT’s unequal distribution of wealth across educator-sellers suggests disparities in the extent to which individual sellers are part of this disruption.
The article reference is: Koehler, M. J., Shelton, C. C., Carpenter, J. P., & Greenhalgh, S. P. (2020). Where Does all the Money Go? Free and Paid Transactions on TeachersPayTeachers.com. Teachers College Record. https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentId=23478