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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MCPS has an obligation to the Maryland State Dept of Ed, who adopted the Common Core, to revise all curriculum (magnet and otherwise) to align to those standards.  There is no wiggle room there.

That doesn't mean that there still won't be complex projects, interdisciplinary lessons, etc.  It just means that the content that middle school students are expected to learn is different than what they were expected to learn under the old standards.  [/quote]

More accurately, the content may be different.

There are Common Core standards only for math and for English/language arts. The math standards do have specific topics (for example, statistics and probability is a topic for sixth-grade math). The English/language arts standards don't have specific topics, just what students should be able to do (for example, for literature, students should be able to determine a theme or central idea of a text and how it is conveyed through particular details, as well as provide a summary of the text distinct from personal opinions or judgments).[/quote]

I hope you are right.  The English/language arts curriculum in the magnet program is wonderful and goes above and beyond the standards you describe.  My concern is whether MCPS (through AEI perhaps) will require the magnet teachers to change their lesson plans because AEI has developed new curriculum materials in conjunction with  the Common Core rollout.[/quote]

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