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Date: January 2011 
[b]Purpose: to track state progress towards implementation of standards and to understand how what students read changes in response to the standards 
[/b]Amount: $1,002,000 [Purpose emphasis added.]

Even though CCSS was never piloted, [b]Gates and Fordham want to watch state “progress” in implementing CCSS, and they even want to know how the untested CCSS shifts the curriculum– even though reformers are quick to parrot that CCSS is “not a curriculum.” This “tracking” tacitly acknowledges CCSS is meant to drive curriculum.[/b][/quote]

"Even though CCSS was never piloted".... so what, exactly?   Given that certain states are moving from, say, their old Maryland State Standards to the new Common Core State Standards.... this money is going to tracking progress of implementation of the new standards, and especially to look at whether the switch to the new standards means students are reading more challenging texts (I assume is what they mean by "how what students read changes in response to the standards".

Let me look that one up:  Sorry, all I am finding is the same document that you, PP, cut and pasted from.   This sentence is just cut and pasted from someone else's blog, for example:

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This “tracking” tacitly acknowledges CCSS is meant to drive curriculum.[/quote]

But I will answer it anyhow.  Having common standards across all our states is not the same thing as having a national CURRICULUM.   All students, for example, should be able to have mastered the times tables by the end of 3rd grade.   But the way they get there:   on-line videos?  hands on manipulatives?  memorizing?  skip counting using jump ropes?   that is the CURRICULUM and that is NOT mandated by Common Core State Standards.

THat's what people mean when they say common core is not a curriculum.

If standards are raised.... if kids in high school (or 6th grade) are supposed to be able to create a logical argument, cite relevant details form reputable sources, maintain formal tone in their essays..... will that change the curriculum that they are exposed to?  One certainly hopes it will!  One expects that curriculum would change, if those hadn't been the standards before.   So I'm not sure why it is some kind of big revelation to see that standards WILL drive the curriculum.

Yes -- the curriculum itself is NOT what CCSS is about.   And if companies like Pearson church out crappy curricula, people will refuse to buy it when they see that the work is not helping children meet the standards.

Remember -- prior to Common Core, textbook companies (who really did create our national curriculum, de facto) had to cater to their 2 biggest customers -- Texas and California.   So even if a small state like Delaware had a great set of state standards, they had a hard time getting textbooks written to their state's needs.   We were all stuck with what CA and TX wanted.

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