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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]1. Do not expect much from the Common Core. (By the way, speaking of copy editing, somebody mixed up "infer" and imply" in that paragraph.) Why? [b]Because standards do [/b][b]not necessarily translate into curricula and teaching.[/b] I actually agree with this; the Common Core is not a panacea, and anybody who said that it was is a fool. [/quote]

And anyone who supports it wholesale is also a fool.  The real education comes at the curricula and teaching level.  That has to happen at the state and local level.  National standards with high stakes testing will only hamstring the teachers' ability to create meaningful curricula that is useful for the students in front of him/her.  [/quote]

But in fact one of the points the Brookings report makes is that some teachers create meaningful curricula that are useful for the students in front of them, and other teachers don't.

Basically, the takeaway, in my opinion, is that the Common Core standards are not going to solve every problem, and they are also not going to lead to doom and disaster. They will have very little effect at all. If I wanted to make education my cause, I wouldn't waste my time and efforts fighting the Common Core standards when there are many problems that are much, much more significant.[/quote]

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