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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]*Yawn* Sorry, no. There were a whole host of people involved, [b]to include state education officials, professors of education and childhood development,[/b] et cetera. Obviously you did NOT read up on the CC development process.[/quote]

I don't think there is a lot of argument that nobody was involved in these standards.  What I think is that certain people were not involved, namely front line teachers.  The teachers, if there were any, were added to "review" the standards at the end.  They were not part of the process from the beginning.  Also, the standards were put into schools wholesale (for all grades) too soon.  They were not given enough pilot time and that is where you get the feedback and where you can modify things (get the kinks out) before you go nationwide with them.  This is what is causing so many problems now.

If this had all been done (people had taken time and been careful), we might not see all these states dropping out now.  They aren't just doing this to have fun or something.  Many had actually adopted the standards before they pulled out.  It's because the standards had not been refined yet, and nobody likes to be the guinea pig (especially when high stakes tests are attached to the experiment).  [/quote]

Again, this is predicated on an entirely misinformed idea that the standards were developed in a vacuum, that they were unvetted and untested.  That is completely wrong.

The CC development process did not consist of a handful of of people locked away in a room sitting around coming up with a standard from scratch.  The vast majority the CC development process consisted of compiling and analyzing EXISTING state standards along with info about the rollout pilots, implementations, looking at the data, research and analysis around those.  As such, there were numerous teachers involved in that prior state standards development, piloting and implementation process even before CC got off the ground.  And, as it turns out, the states that had taken a bigger stake in prior standards development and who were farther along unsurprisingly did fine with the rollouts - it's the ones that drug their feet and who did not engage early on that are struggling.  Essentially, some states sabotaged themselves.[/quote]

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