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[quote=Anonymous]Here's some of the details behind the CLOSED DOOR and SECRETIVE PROCESS!

http://news.heartland.org/newspaper-article/2013/06/07/five-people-wrote-state-led-common-core

[b]Three Main Committees[/b]
By July 1, 2009, NGA and CCSSO had formed more committees. [b]There were two work groups, whose dozen members in math and English wrote the standards. These included no teachers, b[/b]ut did include a few professors. Second were two feedback groups, who were supposed to provide research and advice to the writers. Those had 18 members each, who were mostly professors but included one math teacher. Third was the validation committee, announced in September 2009, which acted as the final gate for Common Core. Their job was to “ensure [the standards] are research and evidence-based.”

While many people sat on these various committees, only one in sixty was a classroom teacher, according to teaching coach and blogger Anthony Cody.  All of the standards writing and discussions were sealed by confidentiality agreements, and held in private. While Linn says six states sent intensive teacher and staff feedback, committee members weren’t sure what effect their advice had, said Mark Bauerlein, an Emory University professor who sat on a feedback committee.

[b]“I have no idea how much influence committee members had on final product. Some of the things I advised made their way into the standards. Some of them didn’t. I’m not sure why or how,” he said. He said those who would know were the standards’ lead writers: David Coleman and Susan Pimentel in English, and Jason Zimba, Phil Daro, and William McCallum in math. Coleman and Zimba did not have previous experience writing standards.[/b][/quote]

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