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What always gets me is flipping from the MD Public Schools forum, where the Common Core math standards are way too easy, to the Schools and General Education forum, where those exact same standards are way too hard.[/quote]

Then, just maybe there is a problem with the standards...... 
   
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You'll never have standards where everyone agrees.  If I say the K standard for math should be "student should be able to add 1 + 1", someone else will say that's way too easy; it should be "student should be able to add 10+10".  Just an example.[/quote]

I think you can get broad agreement on standards locally. That's much tougher in a huge country like the U.S.

And experts don't remotely agree on Common Core standards. The content experts who consulted on the standards refused to sign off on them.[/quote]

Plenty of other big countries are able to have common standards.   In the US, states have local autonomy of education.  That's why some states opted to not implement CC.  It was optionally.  Yes, I know they tied federal funding to adopting it, but it's not impossible to have national standards.  In the US, we just want to always do it our own way.  We don't like gov't telling us what to do.  That's the American way.  Still doesn't mean national common standards is not a good idea.  We live in one country.

As I stated in an earlier post, prior to CC, we lived in a different state that had different standards. When we moved here, DCs had to catch up on some things.  Makes moving harder for kids in school.  It also levels the playing field a bit more for kids applying to colleges around the country.[/quote]

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