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I'm not the K teacher.

My concern is that all of this "fear" of being behind internationally (in math and language) is overblown.  [b]The thing that has made America great (and let's not forget that America is great) is our ability to create[/b].  Building towers out of blocks and thinking in directions that are not necessarily the ones mandated by the "standards" are probably the kinds of thinking that have made America great and different from all those places that are "ahead" of us on tests.  We lead precisely because we see beyond the "standards".  We see that the possibilities for ways of seeing the world are endless.  We should not try to box ourselves in or define ourselves with rigid standards.  
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The things that have made America great are:

1. lots of stolen land
2. lots of stolen labor
3. lots and lots of natural resources
4. an intact industrial base at the end of World War II
5. immigration

And the Common Core standards, in fact, do not limit the ways of seeing the world -- unless you think that it limits the ways of seeing the world for children to understand (for example) place value, or supporting an argument with evidence.[/quote]

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