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Approximately 6 percent of the U.S. student population has significant cognitive disabilities, including general intellectual disabilities, autistic spectrum disorders, and language and reading impairments that aren’t helped by enlarged text or hearing aids, says Katharine Beals, a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania Graduate School of Education who has written about the Common Core’s impact on special education.

“The Common Core is one-size-fits-all, and[b] there isn’t room for a student who has a cognitive age below expectations to get remediation[/b],” Beals says. “The philosophy is driven by good intent, but it’s a lot of wishful thinking. There’s a lot of research out there suggesting that if you want a child to make progress, the most sufficient way to do that is to drop things down to their current level of development.”[/quote]

When she talks of kids having a cognitive age "below expectations".... does she mean kids who are intellectually disabled?   Mentally retarded?

So she is saying that kids with mental retardation are not able to meet grade level expectations under Common Core?

So that begs the questions.... in the past, have standards been set so that intellectually disabled kids could meet them?   So your grade level expectations for algebra I, say, were set so that kids who had a cognitive age below expectations could reach them?

I could totally understand why parents of kids with cognitive impairments would be upset about these standards, if that's the case.   Suddenly the standards have gotten a lot harder, and their kids simply aren't going to be able to meet the grade level standards anymore.   Not even with work arounds and accommodations.  Maybe some of them can with intensive, one on one tutoring, but no school district is going to pay for that kind of education.   It would be phenomenally expensive to provide high quality individualized instruction like that, especially at the high school level.

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