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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]While posters haven't explicitly articulated this specific example, it's nonetheless quite clear that many of the anti-CC posters are coming from that right-wing group-think, particularly given that despite all of the emotional argument, they still haven't been able to give one specific, coherent example of a standard that is actually bad, or which actually goes against sound educational theory and principles. They just "know" it's bad, in large part because they've heard that message that it's bad repeated over and over and over again. As a historical note, Goebbels was the Third Reich's infamous Minister of Propaganda, he had a saying about propaganda - "repeat a lie often enough and people will believe it" - this is definitely how conservative media operates. [/quote]

People on this board have posted specific reasons for problems with Common Core.  If it is so good--why don't you tell why?  Because the standards are "common" or "good" is not sufficient.[/quote]

No they haven't posted specific reasons, it's all just been vague generalities or nitpicking on things that really don't make a significant difference.  It took at least 50 pages of arguing for anyone to event try and take a stab at citing a specific CC element, and even then the best they could come up with was from the Kindergarten standard, "write many upper and lower case letters - uh, what does 'many' mean" which really is not demonstrably bad other than not assigning a specific number.  OF COURSE kindergarten kids should be learning to write upper and lower case letters, and the 1st grade standard says they should know them all.  In saying the standard is "bad," you arguing they shouldn't?[/quote]

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