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Reply to ""Teacher of the Year" quits over Common Core tests"
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If the theme of the movie were that the Common Core standards are not going to make anything better, this thread wouldn't be on p. 136.[/quote] Data please.[/quote] Sure. Read pp. 1-135.[/quote] Sorry, but pages 1-135 of the Brookings report do not at all support your argument that CC "is a mess" or that it will make things worse. Nor does it refute any of the other opening hypotheses, about efficiency, et cetera.[/quote] No, you misunderstand. Pp. 1-135 of THIS THREAD support the argument that there are lots (and lots and lots) of reasons why people oppose the Common Core standards, none of which are "eh, the standards aren't going to make anything better, so I guess I'll go all out and fight them to the death." The theme of the movie we've already seen multiple times on this thread is Opponents: "Common Core = DOOM!" Non-opponents: "No, it doesn't."[/quote] The only thing that this thread has shown anyone is that people keep throwing around "reasons" like "the standards are developmentally inappropriate" but when people ask, how SPECIFICALLY are the standards developmentally inappropriate, by what criteria and what data do you have to show regarding the supposed mismatch between the standards and childrens' educational development, they come up EMPTY. And then they change the subject to something else, like a vague characterization of "the standards are just bad" or "the standards are poorly written" with at best 2 or 3 examples cherry picked out of the entire corpus - but which other posters are able to easily explain what they mean and what they are driving at, because they make perfect sense in combination with the other standards. And then change the subject to NCLB and testing, which is an entirely separate issue not addressed by getting rid of CC. Or, changing the subject to SES which is yet another separate issue from CC. And then they return back to the original arguments, despite the fact that those already went down in flames several pages before, and we repeat the whole cycle over again. And again. And again. For over 100 posts... To be honest, it's bewildering why anyone with such weak anti-CC arguments actually thinks they would make any headway. Over a hundred pages of messages yet they still haven't gotten off of square one and still haven't gained a single inch in, instead only to have been refuted and disproven again and again and again. Sure, people have thrown around "reasons" but when push came to shove, nobody here has actually been able to defend their reasons.[/quote]
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