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Common Core supporters keep running back to this lame argument.  Here's how an actual business would do it:

-Identify a need (students allegedly slipping behind other countries.)

-Create a prototype curriculum, vetted by experts.

[b]-Test it in the field to make sure it ACTUALLY WORKS. Fix all the kinks in it.[/b]

-Roll it out.

-React to feedback, tweaking and perfecting the plan.

Common Core has little of that. It was slapdashed together, and it was copyrighted so no one could change it, just add up to 20 percent  to it. Tests were added to the process to make sure everyone was learning (or in this case, not learning) the exact same thing. These tests will start quickly to function as a straitjacket as teachers' jobs and students' very futures are tied to them.

All this, with  zero proof Common Core holds together as a curriculum and will actually advance our children.

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How do you test it out?  What would be the benchmark?  How long do you give it?  Who would you test it on?  Would you include SN kids in this pool?

You will never find a curriculum where SN and "regular" kids would be *both* challenged and able to meet the benchmark.  What you are looking for is individualized attention, for each kid to be able to learn at his/her own pace.  That's not possible in a large public school setting.

Bottom line, from what I am reading on these posts, is that SN kids should have their own curriculum or standards and benchmark.[/quote]

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