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[quote=Anonymous]Regardless of the content of NY Curriculum, their effort in putting a thorough list of items and opening access to all is remarkable.  This effort paves a way for people coming in to evaluate and improve the curriculum in future.

While criticizing NY's effort at great length, what have we done to get common core curriculum implementation transparent at such a detailed level?  Note that without detail and transparency, it is hard for people to understand and follow.

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http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/it...rk-revolts-against-common-core

From your link:

[quote]Assemblyman Graf said that during testimony from parents and educators, it became clear that the imposition of Common Core had been a total failure — with terrible consequences for teachers, students, schools, and parents. [b]The Common Core modules for New York, for example, are “filled with grammatical errors and haven’t even been edited,”[/b] Graf said. “It would be better to call this the un-Common Core, nothing is consistent.”

The material is often highly inappropriate, the lawmaker continued. [b]“Explain to me why a first grader has to point out ancient Mesopotamia on a globe or explain their contributions to modern civilization — they’re six,”[/b] Graf said, citing a broad range of examples illustrating that the controversial standards appear to have been poorly thought out — at the very least. “But you know there are a lot of people making money on all this.”
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Graf is complaining about the "Common Core modules" -- the ones I posted earlier, that [b]AREN'T anything to do with Common Core State Standards[/b]. They were designed by someone in the New York State Dept of Education. From what I can tell, they appear to be trying to combine Common Core State Standards with Core Knowledge (Hirsch).

Just FYI

(Reposting because I messed up the quotes)
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