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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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But educational reform is not comparable to software releases or vaccine trials.

In an ideal world, would the implementation of the Common Core standards have been less rushed? Probably. But we don't live in an ideal world. To say that there should have been a trial/test period and so on is basically to say that the Common Core standards should have gone straight from development to dustbin. (And yes, many people actually are saying that. I don't know if you are one of them. I am not one of them.)[/quote]

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