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It is so heartening to see the American people finally pushing back against this . . . calling out a process that affects them greatly and in which they had little input (regardless of what the pro CC people say).  [b]Many Americans were unaware of the whole CC process and are only now understanding what it is (and they don't like all of it---especially the testing---which they have plenty of experience with in the schools). [/b]

Winston Churchill said, "You can count on the Americans to do the right thing . . . after they have exhausted all the other possibilities."

We are getting there.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Core_implementation_by_state[/quote]

If this is true, then what it mainly displays is the ignorance of the American people, which I don't find particularly heartening -- given that the testing is required by the No Child Left Behind Act, a law passed by Congress in 2001; the testing would still be required even if the Common Core standards disappeared tomorrow; and the testing is still required in states that never adopted the Common Core standards,[/quote]

There was no reason for the Common Core creators to write in a testing requirement since it was already required by NCLB. In fact, the Obama administration, which has never been an NCLB supporter, has deftly leveraged the punitive aspects of NCLB -- like all children must be proficient by 2014 -- to force states to adopt the Common Core standards. That and the cash are the only reasons the states got on their knees and voted in Common Core Standards-- which at the time most states voted, hadn't even been written yet.[/quote]

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