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This David Conley guy is really cashing in.  He has left EPIC and has now started something called Eduimagine.  Just look at his list of clients:

http://edimagine.com/who-we-are/

And here's his book:

http://collegecareerready.com/[/quote]

Do you have any evidence that anything he says in the linked piece is wrong, or are you proceeding on the principle that everything he says must be wrong because he makes a living in education consulting?

http://www.ocd.pitt.edu/Files/PDF/spr282_final.pdf

For example, he writes, [i]"In 2003, Standards for Success (Conley, 2003) released the first comprehensive set of college readiness standards based on research conducted at over a dozen universities around the country, all members of the Association of American Universities. The American Diploma Project (Achieve, Inc., The Education Trust, & Thomas B. Fordham Foundation, 2004) quickly followed suit with standards that also addressed community college and workplace readiness. Both ACT and the College Board released their versions of college readiness standards, as did the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board, soon thereafter (ACT, 2011; The College Board, 2006; Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board & Educational Policy Improvement Center, 2009). National testing organization ACT in 2009 conducted a nationwide curriculum survey that collected information about college instructor perceptions of the skills students need to succeed in their courses (ACT, 2009). The College Board administered a similar survey that included high school teachers along with college instructors (Kim, Wiley, & Packman, 2009).

All of these documents provided important reference points for the Common Core State Standards. They helped ensure they were derived from standards that were developed with significant educator input and previously tested in the field and validated (Conley, McGaughy, Cadigan, Flynn, et al., 2009; Conley, McGaughy, Cadigan, Forbes, & Young, 2009). Content area standards from prestigious groups such as the National Assessment Governing Board and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics also served as important reference points (National Assessment Governing Board, 2008; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2003). In addition, state standards were referenced. Most notably, Massachusetts and California standards were valuable sources, and both have been identified as being of high quality by independent studies of state standards (Klein et al., 2005; Stotsky, 2005)."[/i]

Did these things not happen? ACT didn't conduct a nationwide curriculum survey in 2009? Content area standards from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics did not serve as important reference points? Massachusetts and California standards were not valuable sources? Neither was identified as being of high quality by independent studies of state standards?[/quote]

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