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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did we score in social studies or history? Must have been pretty crappy. Justice O'Connor launched a civics movement in light of the deplorable statistics.

How about science? English?

You are pointing to data in a vacuum, and it's not compelling. [/quote]  Most people will agree that math and literacy is the most important subjects in school.  Without a solid foundation in both these areas, one's ability to do well in these other subjects would be severely affected.

And I don't understand what you mean by pointing to data in a vacuum.   Is the data from the article that OP posted also data in a vacuum?  Both these data points show math scores: one for kids under 2.0, and another for young and older adults pre Common Core.  Both scores suck.  But, the data for the adults show that the way we taught math prior to CC wasn't that great, either.  Since PARCC and CC in MD are relatively new, it's a lot harder to gauge the effectiveness.

I'm not disputing that the implementation of 2.0 was bad.  I think MCPS should hire math specialists like they have reading specialists.  And in fact, one district in another state did just that, including more training for the lower grade teachers, who admittedly stated that in college, teachers in early ES education don't focus on math enough.[/quote]

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