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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I absolutely do not understand this fixation on process.

If you knew the answers to all of your questions -- exactly who selected the teachers, and for what, and whether the selection was made by e-mail or paper letter or phone call, and the names of the teachers and their cvs, and the exact verbatim input of each teacher about everything, and the names of the teachers' pets and what the teachers' hobbies are and whether they prefer their oatmeal cookies with or without raisins -- then what? [/quote]

Then they could get in front of the process. They could explain their choices and offer the documentation that led to them picking standards, and why standards are so elevated for reading and math starting in K, even when a majority of students is unlikely to meet them.

It's the worst sort of management to meet behind closed doors, then present the CCSS as though they are carved in stone on tablets from on high -- never to be questioned, only to be bowed to in servitude.

If there had been an actual national discussion about standards, they might have had a prayer of a successful rollout. But the CCSS people were afraid of doing this, because they saw a rare opportunity of states desperate for cash -- so they rolled out Race to the Top, and states took the bribe without fully processing what the standards would mean. [/quote]

They *WEREN'T* developed behind closed doors, there *WAS* a national discussion and you need to STOP LYING about this.[/quote]

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