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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Its hard to sell a lemon. 2.0 isn't even a fully complete lemon, major parts are constantly being "re-written" which means that the curriculum office didn't get it done in the first place so teachers had to scramble on their own.

Weast's idea wasn't bad but MCPS really screwed up the execution. As far as fuck-ups go, this one is definitely an ES.

Other school districts, like Howard and other in MD have done far better in implementing Common Core. Starr should have delayed the roll -out and he never held the curriculum office staff responsible because he didn't like managing. The hole was just dug deeper and deeper for three years with the same unqualified staff flailing about. He did spend a lot on PR. The strategy was just not to admit how it is. Now, MCPS is just on auto pilot. The whole situation is so unfair to teachers and students. [/quote]

That makes sense, I see now it was K-5 that was the deal with Pearson.  It sounds like it was a one time payment not an ongoing royalty situation.  Not the OP, I hadn't heard of this deal before.  I'd imagine companies aren't looking to extend the purchase anyway given the current market for textbooks.  It might be interesting to know if they've had any success getting the K-5 material adopted elsewhere.

The teachers have clearly been under a lot of pressure and seem very stressed.  I've been more aware of it at the middle school math level.  My daughter has been in the roll-out year for three courses so far and now my son is in sixth catching the roll-out of, IM, the one course she managed to out pace.  The materials and content organization have been atrocious.  My daughter received nothing but As the whole way through MS but is taking physics this year and it's now very clear how little she's actually learned.  I've never known where the blame should be placed.  I did realize the roll-out has been botched but I didn't know it had gone better elsewhere.  The PR has been completely cynical--all the grade level brochures filled with nothing but jargon and back to school nights where parents are parked in front of promotional videos instead of having time to hear from teachers.  It's very sad.[/quote]

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