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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]-cont'd

a result of the lousy or in some cases non-existent standards, lack of metrics, and lack of accountability that existed PRIOR to Common Core.[/quote]

Oh now THAT is a huge crock of SHIT and you know it!  What the hell are you talking about?  If that were the case there would not be this kind of backlash - and just on DCUM.  This is a nationwide backlash.  So what you're telling us is that 75% of the country - the anti-CC crowd, has it all wrong. That we are just ignorant and didn't realize that the previous system was so messed up?!  I could understand a fair amount of clueless parents but NOT clueless teachers.

Let me guess, you work for the Gates Foundation, or you own a fair amount of worthless Microsoft stock. [/quote]

NP.  The literacy rate in this country is sad, even amongst HS graduates.   This has been a well established fact for years.  This is probably not the case in the DMV area since this area is one of the more highly educated area in the US, but this is just a small part of the US.  We may want to stick our collective heads in the sand and say, well, we don't have a problem here so why mess with things, but the truth is we are part of the US, and how the *entire* generation of kids are educated in this country will affect all of us.

Many parents probably don't complain a lot about it because they themselves aren't highly literate.

http://literacyprojectfoundation.org/community/statistics/

Stats from above link:

California
- According to the 2007 [b](pre Common Core) [/b]California Academic Performance Index, research show that 57% of students failed the California Standards Test in English.
- There are six million students in the California school system and 25% of those students are unable to perform basic reading skills

The Nation
- In a study of literacy among 20 ‘high income’ countries; US ranked 12th
- Illiteracy has become such a serious problem in our country that 44 million adults are now unable to read a simple story to their children
- [b]50% of adults cannot read a book written at an eighth grade level[/b].  (I'm pretty sure more than 50% of adults have been educated beyond the 8th grade)
- 45 million are functionally illiterate and read below a 5th grade level[/quote]

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