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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, but if you are STEM major, you can get by with poorer grades in gen ed requirements and get a job based on your STEM skills.  I work with plenty of people who are very good on the quantitative side but struggle to put together a one page memo--we let them do what they are good at and limit the extent to which they are expected to write.  They are valuable members of the team.

I am sure we have many smart and productive scientists like this.  It would have been a shame if they got the message they were poor at math because they could not orally explain their answers with their fellow second graders.  It is very hard to make it through school receiving daily messages that there is nothing, really, that you are good at.  Had we had this system in the past, we would no doubt have been deprived of many of the brilliant research scientists and engineers we have today.[/quote]

Exactly this.  Many smart people will have their lives ruined by Common Core. We will waste some of the best minds of this generation.[/quote]

I wrote the post in the quote.  I actually am not anti-common core at all; the standards are aimed at developing a deep number sense, which is only to the good.  What I dispute is that meeting this objective requires strong pragmatic language skills and believe CC can and should be implemented without such heavy reliance.  WE need more scientists and engineers, not more lawyers who can actually do math.[/quote]

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