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[quote=Anonymous]10:17 is exactly right.  A few things that many posters either do not know or do not understand:

-Maryland adopted the new Common Core State Standards for math, reading, and writing (so did 47 other states) which is responsible for the slowing down of math and changes to the content within math.
-The MCPS BOE requires that the elementary curriculum be revised every ten years.  It was 2001 when the previous curriculum came out.
-Curriculum 2.0 is MCPS's way of marrying the new standards with a desire to prepare students for the 21st century by incorporating critical thinking explicitly into the curriculum.

The reality is that MCPS is huge, there are over 100 elementary schools, and in each school, the principal is king/queen.  The way that the curriculum is implemented will vary, and that is not going to change unless MCPS uses a scripted curriculum which would literally tell teachers what to say.  The "curriculum" is now the state standards. The teachers get to decide how to teach those standards to their group of students.  A lot of it depends on the quality of the indvidual teacher.[/quote]

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