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Your premise assumes that the students are at a level where you can use the curriculum.  A "solid curriculum" would be one that is relevant to the students in the school.  That may not be the curriculum that has been adopted from "on high" (which could be the one that is called Common Core).

The teacher will be forced to use the adopted curriculum if no other curriculum has been adopted.  The curriculum that isn't "solid" for them.  If they don't, they will be told that their students failed because they did not prepare them for the test.  If they do use it, they might have a chance by "gaming" the test preparation.

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I find it very difficult to believe that if a student is way below grade level, it is possible to game the test prep so that the student does well on the test anyway. Which is to say -- I don't doubt that people might try to game the test prep. I just don't think that the effort would be successful.

Also, if teachers are required to teach only the grade-level curriculum and nothing but the grade-level curriculum, regardless of where the actual students are, that's a real problem. But it's a problem with the school administrators. The Common Core standards do not require this.[/quote]

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