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And what the common core cheerleader fails to acknowledge is that the devil is always in the details.  If it is difficult and confusing to implement, it doesnt matter how good the standards are.  The whole concept is fundamentally flawed. This is why education is not mentioned in the Constitution. The founders recognized that tge locals and states were better suited to education because it is too far removed from the people at a federal level. And too cumbersome to changed flawed programs.[/quote]

The standards are not difficult and confusing to implement.

They are, however, different from standards states had earlier.  In some cases the standards are more difficult than standards states had before.   Whenever a school district or county or state adopts new standards or a new high stakes test, there will be a transition period which will be uncomfortable or upsetting to some teachers, and it is to be expected that students will not do as well on the new tests, especially if they are harder than the old ones.   In addition, new tests can be poorly designed.

When states and counties and school districts try to bring in interim tests "designed like the PARCC or SMARTER BALANCE" these tests may also be poorly designed or have errors on them.

I know students in our MD school took what was essentially a practice PARCC tests (designed by the county in a manner similar to PARCC, or how they thought PARCC would be) and a bunch of students bombed the math test because they were unused to a multiple choice test that allowed you to select "all the correct answers".   On many cases they selected ONE correct answer and then just stopped -- they were not used to the idea that multiple choice questions could have more than one answer bubbled in.   Now that teachers know this, they have been preparing kids to locate dand bubble in ALL the correct answers.   So a failing test score on these practice tests doesn't indicate that Common Core is a failure.   [b]There's just always a transition period when you bring in new standards, and new assessments.[/b]

I honestly think people need to calm down about Common Core.   It'll take  a couple of years to make the transition, but once we do, it will be a good thing to have similar standards and similar assessments across the country.   [/quote]

Yes they are. Otherwise, there would not be such a problem with the testing. My friend in CA actually helped with these tests, is a huge proponent of common core, and had to admit that the state tests were ambiguous and confusing.

Regarding the bolded? That shows me how far removed you are from the individual. If you were using a computer program like Windows that was released leaving your computer unusable and your hard drive corrupted, you would not be so benevolent and say "there's always a transition period". You would be pissed off because you could not use your computer as a result of a faulty product.

In this case, that 'transition period' is messing with children and their education. You don't work out major bugs in a system on such a large population. There is a reason why vaccines and new drugs, for example, have a trial/test period (and the participants are often paid) on a limited subset of the population before implemented nationwide. It keeps damage to a minimum.

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