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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Work on the Common Core goes back to at least 2008. States adopted the Common Core in 2010 and 2011. How much time do you think it should have taken? And who do you think is behind the nefariousness? 
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... involving 27 people on two Work Groups, including a significant number from the testing industry. Here are the affiliations of those 27: ACT (6), the College Board (6), Achieve Inc. (8), Student Achievement Partners (2), America's Choice (2). Only three participants were outside of these five organizations. ONLY ONE classroom teacher WAS involved—on the committee to review the math standards.   [url]http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2013/11/common_core_standards_ten_colo.html?intc=mvs[/url]

The PARCC states selected Achieve, a bipartisan, non-profit, education reform organization, to serve as the Project Management Partner and facilitate the work of the state-led Partnership   [url]http://www.parcconline.org/project-management-partner[/url].  Achieve inc, is funded by private business and is partnered with Pearson and this is just a huge cluster of who knows who.

Common Core calls for multiple assessments, beginning with a baseline at the beginning to see where students are at the beginning of the year.

The cost in terms of instructional time is even greater, so long as tests remain central to our accountability systems. Common Core comes with a greatly expanded set of tests. In New York City, a typical 5th grade student this year will spend 500 minutes (ten fifty-minute class periods) taking baseline and benchmark tests, plus another 540 minutes on the Common Core tests in the spring. Students at many schools will have to spend an additional 200 minutes on NYC Performance Assessments, being used to evaluate their teachers. Students who are English learners take a four-part ESL test on top of all of the above.

Thus testing under the Common Core in New York will consume at least two weeks worth of instructional time out of the school year. And time not spent taking tests will be dominated by preparing for tests, since everyone's evaluation is based on them.  [url]http://blogs.edweek.org/teachers/living-in-dialogue/2013/11/common_core_standards_ten_colo.html?intc=mvs[/url]

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