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It's not the standardized testing; it's the high stakes nature of it and it being (potentially) based on a set of "national" standards that make it different from how it has been in the past.   [/quote]

1.) What's different from the past is that there's an expectation of accountability.  How individual districts choose to take on that accountability is more the problem than the fact that there is more accountability.  Blaming and firing the current teacher for the failings of prior teachers is certainly a problem, but not one that Common Core or NCLB ever mandated, that's stupidity on the part of individual districts and their administrators.  Blaming standardized testing and standards for that is thus misguided and doesn't get at your problem, because even if you get rid of standards and testing, you still have stupid administrators.

2.) What exactly is your problem with national standards?  Why exactly should Alabama have different reading and math standards than Connecticut?  I have yet to hear an educationally sound explanation for that.[/quote]

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