Common Core is going to make my autistic child unemployable

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

You'd probably understand better if you read the whole post, instead of cutting out one sentence and trying to mock what you do not understand.

If a standard is clear, it should be easily measured. Clearly, the developers of the materials are having a tough time with this.

Why? I don't think that this necessarily follows, at all.

[Anonymous]

Why? I don't think that this necessarily follows, at all.

Look up the definition of "standard."

[Anonymous]

OK. Now what?

1: a conspicuous object (as a banner) formerly carried at the top of a pole and used to mark a rallying point especially in battle or to serve as an emblem
2a : a long narrow tapering flag that is personal to an individual or corporation and bears heraldic devices b : the personal flag of the head of a state or of a member of a royal family c : an organization flag carried by a mounted or motorized military unit d : banner 1
3: something established by authority, custom, or general consent as a model or example : criterion <quite slow by today's standards>
4: something set up and established by authority as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality
5a : the fineness and legally fixed weight of the metal used in coins b : the basis of value in a monetary system <the gold standard>
6: a structure built for or serving as a base or support
7a : a shrub or herb grown with an erect main stem so that it forms or resembles a tree b : a fruit tree grafted on a stock that does not induce dwarfing
8a : the large odd upper petal of a papilionaceous flower (as of the pea) b : one of the three inner usually erect and incurved petals of an iris
9: a musical composition (as a song) that has become a part of the standard repertoire

[Anonymous]

#'s 4 and 5 are the ones that apply to this type of standard.

[Anonymous]

I meant #3 and #4. Sorry.

[Anonymous]

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/10/common-core-112144.html?hp=t1

CC continues to lose popularity.