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The Chicago Teachers Union wants to abandon Common Core, as does New York, and now Oregon.

It's the beginning of the flood. [/quote]

The Chicago Teachers Union doesn't like the Common Core standards because

-teachers should be in charge of teaching [an obvious position for a teachers' union to take]
-the standards are developmentally inappropriate [we've been talking about that]
-the standards were developed by test and curriculum publishers and the Gates Foundation [aren't the standards themselves what's relevant? not who developed them]
-implementation of the curricula aligned to the Common Core standards has been bad [again, that doesn't make the standards bad]
-Common Core standards are bad for poor students, ESOL students, and students with special needs [how? why?]
-parents and teachers aren't allowed to see the PARCC and Smarter Balance tests [again, an implementation issue, not a problem with the standards]
-testing takes away from teaching time [true with or without the Common Core standards]
-teachers and schools will be unfairly judged on test results [again, true with or without the Common Core standards]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/09/chicago-teachers-union-passes-resolution-opposing-common-core/

In short, this is a mess. What, specifically, are the problems? If you oppose the standards, then oppose the standards -- but please be specific about which standards are bad, and what is bad about them. If you oppose the implementation, then oppose the implementation. If you oppose the testing, then oppose the testing. If you oppose the teacher evaluation systems, then oppose the teacher evaluation systems. "Common Core" has become shorthand for "everything I hate about education in the US".

(And if the teachers' union thinks that teacher evaluation systems based in part on student test scores will go away if they succeed in getting rid of the Common Core standards -- well, won't they be surprised.)[/quote]

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