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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What a relief.  Pearson developed the NY tests.

http://ny.chalkbeat.org/2013/02/28/newly-hatched-common-core-curriculums-get-city-endorsement/#.U2v90nHD-M8[/quote]

FYI -- from YOUR link:

[quote]The city is also encouraging schools to consider adopting literacy curriculums that the state hired two nonprofit organizations, [b]Core Knowledge and Expeditionary Learning,[/b] to produce.

[b]Schools don’t have to take the department’s advice. [/b]They can use other curriculum programs, including the ones that they have already been using, or create their own materials. Currently, about 70 percent of schools opt to use the city’s recommended curriculums, which for most schools [b]were originally required a decade ago[/b] in one of former chancellor Joel Klein’s earliest initiatives.[/quote]

Just FYI -- the Core Knowledge curriculum is the one that has all those long modules that are driving everyone crazy.

ANd do note that these curriculua have been around in NY for at least 10 years therefore predate Common Core.[/quote]

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