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[quote=Anonymous][quote]In fact, I think that writing the curriculum, which is basically translating the standards into day to day instruction is much harder than writing the standards in the first place. It's much more challenging to have the students in front of you and plan to make the standards workable in a classroom atmosphere. [/quote]

The more affluent areas in America will have staff to write the curricula for the standards.  The districts with less money will not have this and their teachers will struggle to write up some plans themselves.  If there is no system for disseminating curricula that works, there will still be "gaps".

And counting on paying publishers for the curricula and related textbooks is not the complete answer either.   For one thing, some schools will not have money to pay for this.  For another thing, the best curricula is more local and pointed toward the specific students in a given area.  The best situation would be one where teachers come up with curricula and then pilot the test.  Teachers in another area will also write curricula and pilot the test.  They can then compare how their curricula worked based on the test scores.  They can share their best ideas and put them up online for other teachers in other districts who can then use them and make iterative changes to them.  Everything should be open source.  Nobody should have to spend tons of money for materials.  This would be really cost effective.  All of this takes time.  The new tests should not be widespread until this process has been well underway.

I wonder if tests will be released to the public after they are scored.  This would help enormously as well.  [/quote]

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