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If lots of students fail the standardized tests, will the standards be changed or will the tests be changed?

Chicken or egg?  [/quote]

Good question. Most likely, political heads will roll. Common Core has already been defunded, and once they can get rid of Duncan who is wielding his NCLB waivers as threats to force the Common Core and testing, people will likely pull back from the core.

It's too bad -- it was a good idea. But the standards are written in a way to micromanage learning and the testing boxes in teachers to teach to the test. [/quote]

That statement really comes across as uninformed and confused.

Testing is tied to NCLB, which is entirely separate from Common Core.  Take Common Core away, and it does nothing about NCLB.  Take NCLB away, and it does nothing about Common Core.  Common Core just happens to be the standard to which NCLB is supposed to align.  The states are allowed to make their own decisions about how to implement that testing, though - and many chose PARCC, some chose Smarter Balanced, some chose tests of their own.

As for "micromanagement" I have to strongly disagree.  The standards are just minimum standards, and they DO NOT dictate HOW to teach, or what materials or texts to use, nor do they restrict teachers from implementing their own creative curricula.  They only specify a base set of criteria - which, by my reading of them, are perfectly appropriate and reasonable.[/quote]

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