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[quote=Anonymous][quote]How about answering my question - where is your data to prove your accusation that Common Core is "damaging?"[/quote]

YOU might need DATA, but teachers use common sense every day to make judgments about teaching and learning based on what is happening in real time.  If they had to wait for the data, the kids would be up a creek without a paddle.  If you do not trust the judgment of teachers, there is a big, huge problem that data is never going to solve.

Common sense requires a person to observe and make decisions that are logical (to the best of their ability) in a given situation.  If it is a given that students learn to read sometime between ages 5 and 7 and that this is because of factors that have to do with brain development, it makes sense that trying to drill down on reading before a student is ready is not a good idea and that it may damage a student's sense of self and may prevent the student from having the time to develop in other ways that need to happen before reading can occur.  It may be hard to get "data" on this because these kinds of things in life are not always measurable by using standardized tests.  However, everything that is important cannot be tested and everything (most of everything in fact) that is tested is not always important.  This is common sense . . . which we need more of in our lives.  Apparently you don't trust teachers to have it.  Sadly.  [/quote]

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