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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No..it is saying the top 3% probably need a curriculumn that is different from the majority.  MoCo kids may be as a whole more affluent etc then kids from a rural area and can handle an overall more challenging curriculum (or so we would like to believe)..but that doesn't mean that most can't be in a standard MoCo classroom.[/quote]

Exactly.  By and large the standard curriculum of a given place reflects that place's demographics.  You will find a different curriculum in a county school system in e.g. rural Alabama than you will in MoCo or Cambridge.[/quote]

A question is why Common core fits MoCo then.   I have to say that the strategy of 3% sounds make sense.  However, the two comments above exactly dispute the foundation of the common core to some extent. [/quote]

I don't disagree.  Given the vast differences among the various regions of the country, I'm not sure how Common Core will truly work.

This is part of why those reports bemoaning how the U.S. ranks some crazy-high number in world competency surveys in e.g. science and math are kind of meaningless.  If Massachusetts were a country it would rank second in science and very high in math:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/03/science/expecting-the-best-yields-results-in-massachusetts.html?_r=0

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