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Common Core is totally untested. In states that have been using it and testing with it, like New York and Kentucky, about 70 percent of kids fail the standardized tests. They simply don't understand what they've been taught. When you factor in race or any kind of disability, the failure rate skyrockets. It's very language intensive, so if your child is a slow reader or has any other kind of language based learning disability, they're just screwed.

I was talking to a mom in another state. In her daughter's 6th grade class, out of 31 students, 23 failed.

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NY made their tests too hard, and tested things that were not required by Common Core.  That was their choice as a state, but was not due to the Common Core standards.

In addition, these states rushed a test to production, without having any field testing.

Our state (MD) will be using the PARCC tests next year, and I have seen some of the field testing.   I agree that the Language Arts test is very language intensive, and only children who are strong, capable, quick readers are likely to score well on this test.

Slow readers will score poorly, that is for certain.

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