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[quote=Anonymous][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]

The Common Core is not a curriculum. The Common Core is standards. In this grade, students should be able to do [this], and they should be able to do [that]. You can look the standards up here:

http://www.corestandards.org/the-standards

School districts design their curricula so that they align with the Common Core standards.

Please note that "aligning with the Common Core standards" does not mean "students will be able to do this AND NOTHING MORE".[/quote]

Really?  Cause that's what it seems like at Bannockburn Elementary School.[/quote]

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