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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But I think that a likelier explanation is that the schools in Kentucky need to improve.[/quote]

Yeeeah!  That's right it has to be the teachers fault that they are not teaching Common Core based curriculum properly.

From what little I could find Kentucky is right about the middle or upper as far as educational scoring.  So they would be a great test case to examine[/quote]

Not quite the case.   Actually Kentucky's old standards were ranked near the bottom of the US.   About 11th from the bottom.

It's not that the teachers are bad, but the standards they were given to hold kids to just weren't that high.   Now that the bar has been set at a higher level, it is understandable that it will take the kids several years to meet the higher standards.

[quote]For Kentucky, the standards represented an opportunity to aim again for a long-time goal. Educators had hoped for years to compete with states like Massachusetts and Minnesota, the country’s education elite. Two decades earlier, the state had undertaken an ambitious education overhaul, the Kentucky Education Reform Act, which introduced new standards and assessments. But the reforms failed to catapult the state to the top. [b]Kentucky students continued to be mediocre on national exams. A report by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative think tank, gave Kentucky’s old math and English standards a D.[/b] Only 11 other states were rated as poorly or worse in both subjects.[/quote]

http://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2013/10/what-kentucky-can-teach-the-rest-of-the-us-about-the-common-core/280453/[/quote]

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