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If the intent of the standards were aspirational goals for students, they make some sense. As to whether they are developmentally appropriate, surely it ought to be possible to do a controlled study. The actual standards development process doesn't seem to have done one, though.

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The intent of the standards to be the learning goals for what students should know and be able to do at each grade level. Is that what you mean by "aspirational goal"?

I agree that it is theoretically possible to do a controlled study. What aim would you be trying to accomplish with this controlled study? If it turned out that the standards (K-2? K-6? K-12?) were developmentally appropriate, then what? If it turned out that some or all of the standards were not developmentally appropriate, then what? Which non-Common-Core standards in education have undergone testing via a controlled study to determine whether they are developmentally appropriate?[/quote]

Again one of the the many problems with the standards is THEY ARE NOT CHANGEABLE. They are copyrighted, and states "approved" them before they were ever written, with zero idea what would be in them.  SO if they SUCK and are inappropriate, tough shit. We're stuck. Our kids our stuck. Our teachers and schools are stuck.

These standards will be studied --- unfortunately, at the cost of this generation of children, who have had their education hijacked by trying to meet a hodgepodge of standards by a bunch of nerds who understand books but not children.

And to "aspirational level" -- these standards were written for the top 30 percent of children. The rest will fail, year after year after year, until we finally have millions of non-graduates who are unemployable.

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OF COURSE they are changeable.  Most standards are revisited and updated on a regular basis.  Never heard of ISO or other standards bodies?   Copyrighting has nothing to do with whether they can go back and change them again, it just has to do with whether someone else can claim them as their own.  As for your nonsense about "not knowing" what was in them or the approval process, I AGAIN direct you back to reality:  http://www.corestandards.org/about-the-standards/development-process/

Again, if you don't like the standards, come up with a better solution.   "Repeal" is not a better solution.[/quote]

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