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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ While I would agree that the test should be diagnostic, it seems most of your objection is based on a flawed premise that the standards were developed "without consulting ANY experts in early childhood education and the luminaries in a variety of fields - educators, psychologists, etc" when that is absolutely FALSE - in fact, they had a massive amount of input from such experts as well as from many front-line teachers.[/quote]

please direct us to the massive input.[/quote]

It's a fact - the Common Core standards development process started out with looking at a number of existing state standards that had already been developed with input and vetting from experts, and then had several series of committees, workgroups and review/input periods, they had people from academia, child psychologists, experts on pedagogy and many other fields and in fact they received and addressed over 10,000 comments.  Politifact looked into the claims that there was no input from front-line teachers and ruled it to be false:  http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2013/oct/21/fact-checking-common-core-school-standards/

The claim that the standards were developed in a closed back room with no input is an outright lie being aggressively circulated by Heartland Institute and a few other conservative front organizations.[/quote]

So -- now an attempt to sway liberal DC parents (i.e., the majority of public school parents) by saying opt out is a conservative conspiracy.   Please just google "opt out"  "standardized testing" to get a wealth of information to decide for yourselves.   Also -- it appears the above poster has conflated the concept of common core with opting out -- they are related but different ideas -- don't be taken in.  [/quote]

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