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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Anonymous wrote:

One root cause has been an uneven patchwork of academic standards that vary from state to state and do not agree on what students should know and be able to do at each grade level.

Research does not support the premise that this is a problem. No one has ever established that it is a problem.

"[b]No one has ever established that it is a problem" is different from "research does not support the premise that this is a problem[/b]". Which is it? Has there been research on the effects of the uneven patchwork of academic standards that vary from state to state? If so, what did that research find? If there hasn't been -- it certainly seems reasonable that an uneven patch work of academic standards that vary from state to state would cause problems. [b]If I were doing the research[/b], that's the hypothesis I would want to test.[/quote]

When I read stuff like this, it is dizzying.  I am not either of the PPs on this one.

We have lost our ability to use COMMON SENSE in this country.  We seem to need "research" and "data" and "graphs" and "charts" when all we really need to do is listen to those who are in schools every day experiencing kids and using their COMMON SENSE.  [/quote]

People with common sense know better than to just accept someone's opinion or talking points at face value without data or the means to verify what they are saying.

I frankly have zero reason to believe you at your word that you are actually in the schools every day, there are more indications than not that you aren't actually a teacher.  Even teachers ought to have the common sense to know better than to just make statements without having the backup and data that they can turn to.

But even a teacher might not have a sufficiently independent, objective or broad perspective to understand the differences between states or what is happening in schools longitudinally as students progress, or the trend over time of what has been happening.

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