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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What specific Common Core State Standard do you wish to see changed?

Don't talk about testing, or implementation of curriculum, or crappy workbook pages.

What Standard do you wish to change?

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It's not about the standards. It is about the total issue.[/quote]

[b]The Common Core State Standards are a list of standards, with a few appendices which list things like titles to give a sense of reading levels.  That's it.  That's all they are.[/b]  If you object to one or more of the standards, then name the standard you object to.  If you object to the idea of children in California learning the same thing as children in DC, then explain why.

Otherwise, if you're objecting to the choices that states or local education authorities have made in how they choose to design their curriculum or assess student progress, then name the states and the choices and say you object to those.  But understand that those things aren't Common Core State Standards.

If you object to aspects of NCLB or of RTTT then say that.  But understand that neither of those things are Common Core State Standards.[/quote]

1) What is Achieve Inc? 
2) Was special funding for CC included in Obama's nearly 800 billion stimulus plan via the "Race to the Top" program?
3) Was the testing component of CC delayed for several years? Why?
4) Did the federal government also incentivize other parts of common core, besides mere acceptance? 
5) Did the Obama administration offer waivers to the No Child Left Behind law if they adopted the new CC standards?
6) Were states asked to sign a letter agreeing to CC before the standards were written? Why?
7) Which two companies are creating the new tests and, more importantly, who chose these companies and who funds them (hint: the feds - and they are also taking an active role in vetting the test questions for 'quality purposes'.

Bill Gates: "Identifying common standards is not enough. We'll know we've succeeded when the curriculum and tests are aligned to those standards".
Former Texas Education

Commissioner Robert Scott testified he was told that a state that adopts CC can only add 15% of their own input into curriculum. He states: "It was then that I realized that this initiative, which had been constantly portrayed as state-led and voluntary, was really about control. Then it got co-opted by the Department of Education later. And it was about control totality from some education reform groups who candidly admit their real goal here is to create a national marketplace for education products and services."

Scott also states that he did not adopt the standards for TX because he was troubled by the lack of transparency, that the standards were written behind closed doors...."We didn't know who the writers were until the project was complete".

You might want to believe the standards only provide teachers with concepts and timelines, and that states and locals will remain in control of curriculum. That is just not true. The test questions will direct what gets taught in public schools.  Think of it this way: If the English portion of a CC related test consistently asks one question about Shakespeare, but four questions about an EPA document, it won't take long before schools tailor their curriculum to include the EPA document. Neal McClusky of the Cato Institute states "Year after year, questions become curricula".

In summary:  Progressives wrote CC standards, used money from the 2009 stimulus bill to bribe states into adoption them, and are now "vetting" the tests that will eventually shape the curriculum used by school districts all across the US.

Control and conform, baby! [/quote]

So to be clear:  you don't actually oppose what is in the Common Core State Standards, but you oppose the fact that people will be implementing curriculum to meet those standards?[/quote]

Go look up the answers to the questions I listed above. Look at the quotes. And if you still don't understand, do it again, and again, until you do.[/quote]

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