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Every new curriculum has problems. I don't think that's a reason to never change the curriculum.[/quote]

New curriculums are supposed to be tested on smaller groups--not do wholesale change without checks and balances. 
 
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That's a lovely idea, but I doubt that it actually happens in reality. Could you give me some examples of curricula actually used in meaningful numbers in the US that were tested on smaller groups before getting rolled out?[/quote]

Just to add to this, when was the last time a whole curriculum changed and the materials changed along with it?  I don't want my kids to learn the same curriculum I did 40+ yrs ago.   The world has changed; the job market has significantly changed and will continue to do so as technological advances are made.  My kids know how to type long before I ever did.  They also read, write, do math problems at a level higher than I or my DH did at their age, and DH was educated in Europe.  I think it's pretty impressive.[/quote]

There hasn't been any wholesale change of curriculum or materials under CC.  Most of the examples of "lousy CC curriculum" and "poorly worded CC problems" that are being circulated can be found in the textbook editions, workbooks, worksheets that publishers were printing 10 years prior.  But many schools and administrators aren't sufficiently on the ball to realize that they are making poor choices of textbooks and materials, many of which are now being marketed as "Common Core" but which are really just a rehash of the lousy textbooks and materials they have been selling for years.

Anyone who thinks it suddenly made curriculum and testing worse wasn't around 10 years ago.[/quote]

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