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Not when they are taking the same national tests. In order to do so, the curriculum has to align with those tests.  And since the SAT and ACT will also be re-written to align to those standards, that makes them national, regardless of what you are being told.

[b]If the materials have errors, then those materials are crap.[/b] I assume you work? Try and experiment. For the next month, turn in your work with errors. If you are an accountant, screw up some numbers. Need to produce a report? Make some spelling errors. Extra bonus points if those errors make your work frustrating for your bosses to understand. Let me know at the end of the month how you are received.  If you are a federal worker though, I suspect it will be business as usual.

It's pretty hard to challenge something you're left out of to begin with. Did you have a seat at the Common Core table? How about when the materials were being written? Were you asked to participate? Was your input solicited? Now if those products are meant to be consumed in a free market, well, that's fine - I  have a choice. If it sucks, I don't buy it. But in this case, the only choice I have is pay my taxes, even if the product is crap, or go to jail.  Hmmm, that sounds an awful lot like Obamacare, come to think of it....[/quote]

I teach, using Common Core standards, and the materials I choose and that have been chosen by my school district, are not crap and do not contain errors.

My kids are in schools, being taught using Common Core standards, and there has not been a large outcry that Common Core materials are horrible.

No one asked me to come up with the standards; but the standards they came up with are good, and better than the old MD standards, in my opinion.   Significantly so for math and foundational skills in reading.   And extremely better, in terms of writing, because I don't think MD even had standards that required students to be able to write an essay.

In fact the writing standards are far and away the best thing about Common Core.   If you are arguing that the current standards are WORSE than the standards you had before, tell me in which state you live.[/quote]

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