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It's not just special needs kids who can't meet the standards. 70 percent of kids don't make the standards after a solid year of being taught this fabulous new way.

And in Kentucky, where Common Core Standards have been taught for 4 years, only about 35 percent pass the math portion. Four friggin years, and they still have no idea what they are doing.  A whole generation's education will be lost. 
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So the quality of education in Kentucky was higher before they adopted the Common Core standards?

As for what the percentage is of kids who don't meet the standards -- I'll wait for the first year of test results from PARCC and Smarter Balanced. [/quote]

Given the cut scores they've released it will probably be even lower.

http://dailycaller.com/2014/11/18/common-core-test-group-projects-widespread-failure/

Here's what the companies are prepping parents for:

One of the two major groups designing standardized tests aligned with Common Core has released how students are expected to score on its inaugural exam next spring, and its prediction isn’t pretty.

According to anticipated score distributions announced by the Smarter Balanced testing consortium, al[b]most two-thirds of students taking the test next year will fall below proficiency in mathematics, while nearly six in 10 will fail to measure up in English.[/b] Defenders of the test, however, emphasize that low scores are nothing to be afraid of, and represent an increase in expectations rather than a decrease in ability.[/quote]

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