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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]If standards don't reach a level where prospective college students need to be upon graduation then you have slammed the door on students ever being able to get into college.

Sure, let's just dumb kids down, they don't need to go to college anyhow. Let them get a job digging ditches or stocking shelves, we don't need any engineers or scientists, heck, maybe we don't even need teachers to have degrees if we dumb it down enough. [/quote]

Do you put the roof on the house before you pour the foundation?  
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You have that analogy backasswards and that's not at all how the standards actually work.  By "top down" in the Common Core literature, that's about the framework, developing the blueprint BEFORE you even start building, and then figuring out what needs to be built when, where and how.

You on the other hand want to just wing it and build a house that a.) has no blueprint and b.) is built on quicksand.  Aside from your complete lack of vision or strategy (no blueprint), your bottom-up approach has such low expectations that by the time you're ready to try and put the roof on, it's sunk into that quicksand.

Common Core standards try to establish not only a blueprint, but establish a more solid foundation and planned sequence of building to reduce the likelihood of that happening.[/quote]

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