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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I am not "emotionally" attached to the CC standards. I just happened to have actually read them, and I find nothing objectionable. I also just find it incredible that so many people on this board, who are so proud that they are well-educated and successful, cannot grasp the basic difference between standards, curricula, and assessments and analyze the issues more deeply. [/quote]

Do you not understand that the standards drive all of the other things?  Whether you like it or not, they are being used for testing, and frankly, that is what drives the train these days.[/quote]

No, the standards are not being "used" for testing.  Is it true that for-profit companies are creating tests based on the standards and that states are contracting with said for-profit companies for said testing material?  Yes.  Does that mean that the standards are bad?  No.  The test material may be bad.  But again, the standards - EXPECTATIONS FOR LEARNING - are not the same as a the content of a test to measure whether that expectation has been met.  I have seen some of the tests and they are ludicrous.  I still have no problem with the standards.  I just think we have to demand better test content, and take the money out of the equation.  [/quote]

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