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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hopeless.  [b]We've given lots of examples of poor standards.[/b]

If these standards are so good:  please document.[/quote]

Actually, I've posted almost all of the standards that have posted. The discussion has mostly gone like this.

Me: *posts standard* Is this a bad standard?
anti-CCSS poster: LOL yes.
Me: Why?
anti-CCSS poster: Well, duh.

Sometimes there is more detail in the response. For example,

-"It's not measurable" (except that it is; I think that these anti-CCSS posters don't necessarily understand measurement)
-"It's developmentally inappropriate" (which begs the question; specifically what about it is developmentally inappropriate?)
-"It's badly written" (the copy-editor issue; unfortunately the copy-editors so far have not provided any editing suggestions)

[b]And no, I don't need to document that the standards are good. You're the one saying that they're not good; it's on you to support what you're saying[/b].[/quote]

Well, there's some great Common Core critical thinking for you.

No, it really is on you and the rest of the establishment to prove these standards are good. [b]Otherwise, we won't continue jumping through hoops[/b]. [/quote]

I guess that will show me?

Actually the idea that you have to support what you're saying is explicitly in the Common Core State Standards, for example here in this fourth-grade standard:

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.4.1
Refer to details and examples in a text when explaining what the text says explicitly and when drawing inferences from the text.

I don't think it's a radical, unprecedented, way-out-there idea.

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