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The populace hasn't changed, though. Not everyone is Ivy league or even 4-year college material. That shouldn't make them worthless or ineligible for a high school diploma. But that's the situation Common Core is setting up. Those standards were written for the top 30 percent of students, not the general population. And that's about the amount of students passing the early tests, even in early adopter states like Kentucky after three years of testing.

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I agree that it's a problem. I disagree that it's a problem that the Common Core standards are setting up. If the Common Core standards had never been invented, or if they disappeared tomorrow, there would still be a lack of vocational education and economic options for non-college-bound students.

The Common Core standards are not going to solve every problem in education, and this is one of the big, big problems that they are not solving.[/quote]

The CC standards are a strait jacket. Schools can't change them, so they can't introduce more vocational tracks. And because they are national, even infiltrating into the GED and private schools, children and parents can't escape them.[/quote]

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