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[quote=Anonymous]I limited myself from philosophical/moral debates of 
- Should MCPS students of a subset of MCPS be the test subjects of curriculum experiments?
- Should MCPS roll out a curriculum without proper preparation from schools and teachers?
- Should parents send their ES kids to MCPS?

These are up to the decisions from parents and MCPS officers.  It is not very constructive to debate these any way.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thank you for the short explanation.  Based on your knowledge, I think that you may be one of the MCPS officer who worked on the matter.  I am glad for your response.

Now, come back to the points.  My statement is 
4)[b] CCSS has not rolled out a test standard before the rollout of Curriculum 2.0. [/b]

Even though I typed it quickly with impreciseness, my statement captured the main fact.

Neither UCARE nor MSA is the right test or assessment recognized nationally for CCSS.  More specifically, new tests developed for CCSS by either PARCC or SBAC was not ready before the rollout of Curriculum 2.0.  This is a fact. 
http://www.edweek.org/ew/articles/2013/03/13/24parcc.h32.html?tkn=LLRFqfZJEcYIEO4KAH5ecL0mxVVQaoSVN4u0&cmp=ENL-CM-NEWS1
http://www.parcconline.org/sites/parcc/files/PARCC%20Assessment%20Administration%20Guidance_FINAL_0.pdf

In this way, regardless how rigorous CCSS is and tests for CCSS will be, curriculum 2.0 is a premature product.  [quote=Anonymous]

You're saying that schools should not switch to the Common Core until there are assessment tests for the Common Core. But you can't test the assessment tests for the Common Core without schools that have switched to the Common Core. How would you solve this problem?[/quote][/quote]

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