Rest Stop: Suppliers & Distributors

Unless otherwise noted, these companies do not publish any of their own materials or actually produce curriculum and educational products. Instead, they merely sell resources from a wide variety of other outlets, serving as suppliers/distributors. As such, they have not been queried in regard to the Common Core Standards/Next Generation Science Standards/College, Career and Civic Life Framework (CCS/NGSS/C3). And to our knowledge, they all sell a wide variety of materials – whether independent, correlated, with ancillary connections, or explicitly aligned – without regard to any resource's CCS/NGSS/C3 status.

We provide this list as a helpful resource for those seeking suppliers beyond the publishers themselves and by way of noting why these entities have not been included on any of the other lists. For the few companies that do produce their own materials in addition to serving as distributors, we've also included their product lines on the appropriate CCS/NGSS/C3 alignment lists.

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AbeBooks	SUP
Acorn Naturalists	SUP
Adventist Book Center	SUP
Alibris	SUP
Amazon	SUP	In addition to serving as a supplier/distributor, Amazon has also created Amazon Studios, its own product line of educational media, which is listed separately in the database.
American Science & Surplus	SUP
AmScope	SUP
Barb's Books	SUP
Barnes & Noble	SUP	In addition to serving as a supplier/distributor, Barnes & Noble has also created its own product line, Flash Kids Harcourt Family Learning, which is listed separately.
Beloved Books	SUP
BetterWorldBooks	SUP
Bio Corporation	SUP
Birch Court Books	SUP
Blick Art Materials	SUP	In addition to serving as a supplier/distributor, Blick Art Materials has also created its own product line of lesson plans, which is listed separately.
Blitsy	SUP
BookDepository	SUP
Books-A-Million (BAM!)	SUP
BooksBloom	SUP
Bookshelf Central	SUP
Brighter Child, A	SUP	A Brighter Child is a supplier/distributor. This a different entity than Brighter Child, a subsidiary of Carson-Dellosa.
Brock Optical, Inc.	SUP
Carolina	SUP
Castlemoyle	SUP
Christian Book Distributors (CBD)	SUP
Classroom Store, The	SUP
Creation Superstore, The	SUP
Curriculum Express	SUP
Curriculum Store, The	SUP
Didax Educational Resources	COR EXP SUP	In addition to serving as a supplier/distributor for several CCS-aligned companies (i.e., Carson-Dellosa, Eureka Math, Jossey-Bass, Newmark Learning, Scholastic, Shell Education, Teacher Created Resources) that are listed and detailed separately, Didax Educational Resources has also created its own product lines, most of which are either correlated to or explicitly aligned with the CCS, as explained via product descriptions on its main website.
Different Roads	SUP
Discount School Supply	SUP
DVDs for Schools	SUP
EAI Education	EXP SUP	In addition to serving as a supplier/distributor, EAI Education has also created its own product lines, which are aligned with the CCS.
eBay	SUP
Edmund Scientifics	SUP
EKI (Electronics Kourseware International)	SUP
Emmanuel Books	SUP
eNasco	SUP
ETA hand2mind	EXP SUP	ETA hand2mind has developed several of its own resources/brands – for which it advertises its alignment with the CCS – and also sells material from some other vendors, many of which are also aligned with the CCS.
Exodus Books	SUP
Faith in Store	SUP
Family Vision, The	SUP
Fat Brain Toys	IND SUP	In addition to its own Fat Brain Toy Co. line, Fat Brain Toys serves as a distributor for dozens of other providers, which  may be listed separately. Products created directly by Fat Brain Toys are independent of the CCS/NGSS/C3.
FishFlix	SUP
Focus on the Family	SUP
For Small Hands	SUP
Franklin Electronic Publishers	SUP
Future Horizons, Inc.	SUP
Gamequarium	SUP
Gary Grimm & Associates	SUP	Though primarily a supplier/distributor, Gary Grimm & Associates also operates Education 4 Kids Drill Games, which is listed separately in the database.
Generations of Virtue	IND SUP	The Generations of Virtue's store is linked to the Christian Book Distributors (CBD) website and offers materials relevant to its purpose from other publishers. That material all appears to be independent of the CCS, but CBD as a whole does sell resources from many providers, some of which have connections to the CCS/NGSS/C3.
Geyer Instructional Products	SUP
Good Steward Books	SUP
Grace & Truth Books	SUP
Great Computer Deals	SUP
Half Price Books	SUP
Hawker Brownlow Education	SUP
Hayes (Flipside)	IND SUP	In addition to serving as a supplier/distributor, Hayes (Flipside) has also created its own product lines, which are listed separately in the Subject Area Project.
Heppner's Legacy Homeschool Resource	SUP
Home Educational Resources	SUP
Home Educator's Resource	SUP
Home Science Tools	SUP
Homescholar Books	SUP	In addition to serving as a supplier/distributor, Homescholar Books  has also created its own curriculum product, Literary Lessons from the Lord of the Rings, which is listed separately in the database.
Home School Books for Less	SUP
Homeschool Buyers Co-Op	SUP
Homeschool Diploma	SUP
Homeschool Mania	SUP
Homeschool.com	SUP
HomeschoolClassifieds.com	SUP
HomeschoolingSupply	SUP
HomeschoolLiterature.com	SUP	HomeschoolLiterature.com provides reviews of books with homeschooled characters and/or homeschooling themes, as well as books written by homeschoolers.
HomeschoolScopes.com	SUP
HomeschoolSupercenter	SUP
Honey Tree Books	SUP
Horrible Books	SUP
HPB Marketplace	SUP
iDisciple	SUP
Individual Software	SUP
JM Cremp's	SUP
Kaplan Early Learning Company	SUP
Kappa MapGroup	SUP
Kidobi	SUP
Knight's Book Knook	SUP
Lakeshore Learning	SUP
Lamp Post Homeschool	SUP
Laurelwood Books	SUP	Though largely a supplier/distributor, Laurelwood Books also publishes books by Mary Ellen Tedrow (Little Yellow Book Study Guides and Patriotic Penmanship), which are listed separately in the database.
LGS Microscopes	SUP
Library and Educational Services	SUP
Library Video Company	SUP
LifeWay	SUP	Though primarily a supplier/distributor, LifeWay also publishes some of its own resources as B & H Publishing Group, which is listed separately on the database.
Lighthouse Educational	SUP
Mardel	SUP
Marini Made Harps	SUP
Mead	COR SUP	In regards to its educational resources – not its “school supplies,” for which it is merely a supplier – Mead has “evaluated the CCS with an educational consultant to determine how and where [its] product content aligns.”
Milestone Books	SUP
Miller Pads and Paper	SUP
MindWare	IND SUP	MindWare sells its own products as well as products from other vendors. In regard to its own products, it does “not have a current system in place to rate [its] proprietary items to follow the NGSS, Common Core and C3,” but it may consider doing so in the future.
Montessori Services	SUP	Though primarily a supplier/distributor, Montessori Services also operates Parent Child Press, which is listed separately.
Music K-8 (Plank Road Publishing)	SUP
Nature Gift Store	SUP
Nature's Workshop Plus!	SUP
Nelson	OTH SUP	Nelson serves as a distributor for products from several other companies, many of which are aligned with the CCS. But in regards to its own materials, Nelson was contacted multiple times over the course of several months and did not respond to any query. I cannot speculate as to why it has chosen not to reply, and I have no discernible way of knowing its position on the CCS/NGSS/C3.
NEST	SUP	Though primarily a supplier/distributor, NEST also produces an animated DVD series, which is listed separately as NEST Animated DVDs.
New Society Publishers	SUP
North Light Shop	SUP
Northland Music Publishers	SUP
Our Father's House	SUP
PaperBack Swap	SUP
Prairie View Press	SUP
R.O.C.K. Solid	SUP
Rainbow Resource	SUP	Though primarily a supplier/distributor, Rainbow Resource also publishes GUM Drops Grammar, Miquon Math, and Visual Manna, which are listed separately in the database.
Raincoast Books	SUP
Really Good Stuff	SUP
Reformation Heritage Books	IND SUP	In addition to publishing its own titles, which are independent of the CCS, Reformation Heritage Books serves as a supplier for other publishers whose positions on the initiative are listed separately.
Resources for Reading	SUP
S.T.E.A.M. Line Toys	SUP
School Specialty Publishing	SUP
Schoolhouse Publishing	IND SUP	Though primarily a supplier/distributor, Schoolhouse Publishing also publishes Research in Increments, Apples Daily Spelling Drills, The Log, Caution for Boys, and Caution for Girls, which are independent of the CCS.
Schoolmasters Science	SUP
Scripture Truth Book Company	SUP
Second Harvest Curriculum (UsedHomeschoolBooks.com)	SUP
Second Story Books	SUP
Sensory University	SUP
Shekinah Homeschool Books	SUP
Shepherd Press	SUP
Sing 'n Learn	SUP
Southern Science Supply	SUP
TAN Homeschool	IND SUP	In addition to serving as a supplier/distributor, TAN Homeschool has also created its own product lines, which are listed separately in the Subject Area Project.
Teach A+ Children	SUP
Teacher’s Choice	SUP
Thames & Kosmos	SUP
Therapro	SUP
Thrift Books	SUP
Timberdoodle	SUP	In addition to serving as a supplier/distributor, Timberdoodle has also created its own product line, Timberdoodle Core Curriculum, which is listed separately.
Toysmith	IND SUP	Toysmith produces its own toys and also serves as a distributor for others. In regards to its own products, it is wholly independent of the CCS/NGSS/C3. Regarding those for which it distributes, a Toysmith reprepsentative notes that “[we] don’t think any of these companies is manufacturing towards an educational market or creating product for a particular curriculum. If they were, you would have already noticed. No one creates product...specific [to CCS/NGSS/C3] without telling anyone about it.”
United Art & Education	SUP
University Press of New England	IND SUP	University Press of New England publishes its own material and also serves as a distributor for several other companies' products. Its own products are independent of the CCS.
vegsource.com	SUP
Vision Publishers	SUP
Weiser Educational	SUP
Why-Games?	SUP
Woodbine House	SUP
Woodwind & Brasswind	SUP
World by Design (CRSEF)	SUP
Yellow House Book Rental	SUP
Z-Twist Books	SUP

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