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Rather than continually dodging, deflecting, waving hands, circular arguments, continual restatement of the same failed talking points and trying to change the subject every time you find yourselves painted into corners you anti-CC posters might want to start familiarizing yourself with this:

http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/aristotle-logic/

Key principles to apply, which seem to be thoroughly lacking on your part.

You're welcome.  [/quote]

Since you are so smart, you should be able to give us evidence that achievement is connected to standards.

Then, once you have done that, you can give us evidence that Common Core standards are good.[/quote]

Well, I didn't provide the link to Aristotelian logic, but nonetheless, perhaps first you could provide evidence that

1. achievement is unconnected to standards
2. the Common Core standards (WHICH  standards?) are bad

Opponents of the Common Core standards say that they have provided evidence for #2 on this thread, although I disagree. I don't remember seeing any evidence at all, convincing or unconvincing, for #1.[/quote]

I have seen no such evidence either.  At best, all they did was post 2 or 3 examples of Common Core standards that they thought were "poorly written" (just their own subjective opinion, at that) - which constitutes what, barely even a single-digit percentage of the corpus of standards?  Do you quit playing baseball because of 2 or 3 strikes out of hundreds of pitches?  No.  Does an orange farmer throw out his entire crop of oranges because 2 or 3 oranges were bad?  No.  Didn't we just talk about grit, Louie Zamperini and not being quitters above?   Did Louie Zamperini say "screw it" and throw himself to the sharks after not being rescued after 2 or 3 hours?  No.   Yet apparently these same posters want us to scrap EVERYTHING and throw it all to the sharks, even before the first test results are in, just because, in their own biased opinion, they think 2 or 3 standards are "poorly written."

There's either some seriously disingenuous rhetoric being thrown around by these folks, or some serious cognitive dissonance going on.[/quote]

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