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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Actually, fighting the CC is getting us to talk about those other problems.  Many people are discussing why the CC will have very little effect and that honestly is helping us to get somewhere else.  So, maybe, in some backhanded kind of way, we can get to a better place.  Churchill said that you can count on Americans to do the right thing after they have exhausted all the other possibilities.  For me, I thought that we had already exhausted this road of "massive high stakes testing".  And it didn't work.

There's nothing like putting 3rd graders on computers with national tests that last hours and require ridiculous preparation and that really have little meaning to get parents pissed off.  Tea Party of not (and mostly not).  What were they thinking????  [/quote]

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