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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The issue is not the standards. 
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If the standards are so good, why are teachers having so much trouble teaching to them and testing them?  Why are standards written by so-called "experts" in their ivory towers such a good thing?[/quote]

I'm a teacher and I'm not having trouble teaching Common Core standards.  They are better than the ones I used to have to use (MD State "voluntary" curriculum) as I have posted earlier.   Which, by the way, were also written by so called "experts" in ivory towers.   [/quote]

For average kids, they are fine.  I am assuming you are not a special needs teacher and [b]someone else deals with any child who cannot minimally achieve.[/b] [/quote]

I'm an ESOL teacher.  About 25% of my students also have IEPs.
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Esol is different than special needs.  Those kids have completely different concerns.  [/quote]

Yes, and ESOL PLUS special needs (25% of the children with IEPs that I have) have different concerns as well.

But I am rereading your comment and I see that you you mention "any child who cannot MINIMALLY achieve".  You are correct, I deal with students who, though they are learning to speak English and have various learning disabilities, are expected to be able to achieve more than minimally.

There are different groups of learning disabled students.   Some 1-2% of the general population, or about 9-20% of the learning disabled population, is considered unable to achieve in your word, even minimally.   They are never, basically, going to be working on grade level due to their disabilities.   If this is the special education population the OP is referring to, I will agree that Common Core has not been appropriate for them and will never be appropriate for them.

When I (and others) argue that Common Core standards are appropriate even for the special needs students, we should be clear that we mean the rest of the group -- those students who have learning disabilities but are expected to be able to achieve.

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Many SN schools use common core standards.  We were just at Ivymount Model Asperger's program and the Auburn school and were told that they both think this is appropriate for kids on the spectrum who fit into their program.[/quote]

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