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That's not the case - Common Core was developed from pre-existing state standards, and both the development process for those prior state standards as well as the compilation and review process for Common Core both had involvement from teachers. [/quote]

Common Core standards were written by a committee that was selected by no one knows who based on no one knows what criteria.

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The standards weren't made up out of whole cloth.   The whole point of the standards was to look at standards currently in use around the country, and standardize them so many states would have the same ones at the same time.   They are not some weird, crazy, untested standards someone invented in a back room some where.   They are perfectly normal education standards -- read fluently with expression; decode multi-syllable words; support main idea with details; add and subtract multi-digit numbers.

And they are FINE standards.   There's really very little that is objectionable about them.   There is a good argument to be made, however, that they are designed to prepare a student for college level work -- and that this standard is simply too high, for a certain percentage of our children.   No one wants to say it, but the fact is that a certain percentage of our students are simply "low achievers".   They are not mentally retarded, but they are slow learners; and they are not going to be able to master all the standards expected by say a 10th grade level.   The COmmon Core standards are a bit too difficult for them in the early grades, and are a LOT too difficult for them, by middle school.   These are children who honestly will not ever be "college ready" and I can see that while the earlier state standards were easy enough that more of these kids could scrape by, the new Common Core Standards are going to be hard for them to meet.[/quote]

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