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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Can you stop spreading inaccuracies? Lots of people believe what they read on the internet.

MCPS did not contract a company to write the curriculum. They wrote it, with MCPS staff only, and then Pearson got to take what MCPS developed for MCPS and edit/do with it what they wanted to sell elsewhere.[/quote]

Not quite. MCPS contracted with Pearson for Pearson to create the curriculum. MCPS did not have the staff, resources, or expertise to undertake a curriculum revision. They participated in the process but MCPS outsourced this badly for financial reasons. Pearson took this project to create a packaged curriculum that it can sell to other school systems. The combination of MCPS inability to deal with the achievement gap and Pearson's desire to market this to school systems that fall below Common Core standards is what created the low bar that you see in 2.0. 2.0 may be a step up in Arkansas but it was huge step back for MD. Originally, MCPS was supposed to get a % of the future profits, not sure how or why that tanked but the money isn't rolling in.

The curriculum for 2.0 is copyrighted and only administrators and teachers within a school system that has licensed can access it. Parents can't have access to any of the materials for this reason. If teachers use outside materials they can share those with parents and many happily do so.

So if you are in MCPS, your kids were sold out by fools thinking they could make a buck and look good in "closing the achievement gap". If you add in an arrogant fool for the next administrator who doesn't know what to do and can't admit any failing on his part for the implementation and end to acceleration, you have an extension of the stupidity. [/quote]

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