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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://dianeravitch.net/2014/04/23/who-wrote-the-common-core-standards-here-is-a-list/

Here is a major part of the problem.[/quote]

This is an example of "guilt by association".   "The standards are bad because they were written by people who have ties to testing companies."

However, the actual standards they came up with are fine, at least as far as I can see; I'm a teacher who has to use them to teach, and I like the standards.

So this argument is moot to me.   I don't care who write them; they are good.  Not only that, but repeatedly people have been asking those who oppose Common Core standards to state which standards they think are inappropriate, and no one has been able to point to very many.  When you read articles about why people dislike Common Core State Standards, over and over again, they do NOT state any particular standard as being bad; they dislike certain worksheets, or the test questions, or the fact that Race to the Top has certain requirements.

All of this leads me to believe that this group that gathered together (whatever their expertise) actually managed to design some pretty reasonable standards.

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Have you considered that it's not the actual standards, but the reason the standards were created and by whom? And how the national testing related to the standards will create data points?  And how those data points can be used and/or breached? [/quote]

Please state your argument as an actual argument, and I will respond.   This style of issuing vague questions that sound ominous but don't actually mean anything is getting really irritating.

"How the data points can be used and/or breached?"  (Ominous music......)[/quote]

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