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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know if you are missing or evading my point. Private schools now are exempt from SOLs and I'm assuming will be exempt from the CC tests. But since the college boards are being re-written to correspond with the CC standards (and thus the common core curriculums), without knowledge of these curriculums, private school students will fare poorly.

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If private school students fare poorly on the SATs and ACTs when they are rewritten to align with Common Core standards, then that means that the private school education wasn't very good.[/quote]

That's not so. There is what kids know and how they are tested to show what they know. The problem will be the latter, not the former.

Again, this a classic demonstration regarding the lack of knowledge between standards and implementation of standards.[/quote]

Can you link to a standard at the high school level, that asks kids to show their work in a way that wasn't true in previous sets of standards?

Common Core puts a lot of emphasis in the early grades on showing work
, using strategies, and visually modeling, for basic skills like addition, division, place value and fractions.  But the only tests that private school school students are being asked to take are the ACT or SAT which don't address those skills.  Looking at the HS standards, what skills do you see in HS Common Core, that you feel are unfair to ask of private school students?

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You keep referencing standards. What I am referring to is the actual college board tests and their rewrite to comply with CC. Only by seeing the questions on these tests can your questions be answered because the testing is directly correlated to implementation of the standards.  Yet teachers are saying that they have no access to CC test questions. They are also reporting that there are hard equipment failures, as well as software issues.

Take Obamacare. There was a set of standards developed for the creation of the website. Yet the website crashed because the implementation of those standards were poor.  If you cannot understand this, I am seriously concerned about teaching programs across the country. Do they not require business courses?[/quote]

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