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[quote=Anonymous]For starters, the standards were written in total violation of accepted protocol. Pretty funny -- and sad and twisted --  for such alleged "rigorous" standards.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/diane-ravitch/common-core_b_5016877.html

The Fatal Flaw of the Common Core Standards
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They were written in a manner that violates the nationally and international recognized process for writing standards[/b]. The process by which they were created was so fundamentally flawed that these "standards" should have no legitimacy.

Setting national academic standards is not something done in stealth by a small group of people, funded by one source, and imposed by the lure of a federal grant in a time of austerity.

There is a recognized protocol for writing standards, and the Common Core standards failed to comply with that protocol.

In the United States, the principles of standard-setting have been clearly spelled out by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI).

On its website ANSI describes how standards should be developed in every field.....

"The Common Core standards cannot be considered standards when judged by the ANSI requirements. According to ANSI, the process of setting standards must be transparent, must involve all interested parties, must not be dominated by a single interest, and must include a process for appeal and revision.

[b]The Common Core standards were not developed in a transparent manner[/b]. The standard-setting and writing of the standards included a significant number of people from the testing industry, but[b] did not include a significant number of experienced teachers, subject-matter experts, and other educators from the outset, nor did it engage other informed and concerned interests, such as early childhood educators and educators of children with disabilities. [/b]There was no consensus process. The standards were written in 2009 and adopted in 2010 by 45 states and the District of Columbia as a condition of eligibility to compete for $4.3 billion in Race to the Top funding. The process was dominated from start to finish by the Gates Foundation, which funded the standard-setting process.[b] There was no process for appeal or revision, and there is still no process for appeal or revision."[/b][/quote]

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