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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about we hear from a guinea pigs (uh, student) being subjected to this totally unproven set of standards:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2014/05/louis-ck-against-the-common-core.html

Callister 3 hours ago

Common Core is awful. I'm a sophomore who used to actually like school, once upon a time. The past year or so, the majority of time I spent in school was spent daydreaming about dropping out. I was stressed out like crazy, I felt stupid, I felt like a failure, and finally I realized I had to do something, because I didn't want to be caught in that stupid system forever, so I'm homeschooled now, and so far it's a million times better.

Arne Duncan, who dismiss the parental critiques of education policy as whining, should maybe stop dismissing and start listening, because all of these complaints cannot mean nothing. All of these complaints mean we should maybe start making some changes. I don't think I'm brilliant or even very smart at all, but I do know I can't get to that point with Common Core, and I also know I'm not the only student feeling beat up and cheated by it.
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It's not the Common Core standards Callister (and the article) is complaining about -- it is the New York State curriculum, using both Common Core standards and the Core Knowledge curriculum, Core Knowledge adding significant standards in Geography, History, Economics, and Science -- VERY ambitious, and apparently too ambitious for the NY students.[/quote]

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