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[quote=Anonymous]editing grammatical error!

[quote=Anonymous]Prior to the CC standards, MD had the Core Learning Goals. They're very similar.  Skills are skills after all.

There are two differences I see, however, based on my experiences:  that the new standards emphasize process (which connects to critical thinking) and that our curriculum department had more time to align the new guides to match the CLGs.

Understanding the standards requires time.  Each curriculum writer (and sadly, MCPS isn't using teachers as part of the process) should have enough time to work with the standards in order to understand just how complex they are.  Ideally, an entire committee of teachers who [b]HAS [/b]worked with students from all over the county should be the experts in designing the frameworks.

But when you have folks outside of the classroom 1) determining what's right for students and 2) creating frameworks for ALL students (including high school students, for example, reading at an elementary level), you have a recipe for a disaster.

You can't blame the standards; you can blame the non-educators for making decisions FOR teachers who have only become pawns in this dangerous game.

Pawn signing off!

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