Over a hundred pages of repeated demands has not produced one iota of evidence to support that claim.

NO EVIDENCE.

Plenty. You just are so tied to supporting Common Core that it is pathetic. Ever heard of James Jones?

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Feds only provided financial assistance

Sorry. If feds are providing financial assistance, the feds are involved pretty closely.

Spin

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COMMON CORE is a minimum standard.

It is a minimum standard that is not developmentally appropriate for many, many kids.

Over a hundred pages of repeated demands has not produced one iota of evidence to support that claim.

NO EVIDENCE.

The test is aligned to Common Core, because whatever the state standard is in place what you align it to.

And, right now, those tests appear to be the ones that have the problem. Why is it so hard to align to Common Core?

Perhaps, because the standards were not written by people who understand classrooms.

Feds only provided financial assistance

Sorry. If feds are providing financial assistance, the feds are involved pretty closely.

Anonymous wrote:COMMON CORE is a minimum standard.

It is NOT a curriculum.

It is NOT a test.

It is NOT federally developed. It was state-led, and state-developed. Feds only provided financial assistance.

The TEST is mandated by NCLB, which is federal law.

The test is aligned to Common Core, because whatever the state standard is in place what you align it to.

But the TEST is also not federally developed. It was developed by a consortium of STATES.

GET IT STRAIGHT AND STOP BEING SUCH AN OBTUSE JACKASS WHO KEEPS TWISTING THE FACTS.

OKAY, "HONEY?"

You are very naive if you believe this. The feds pulled every string to shove this "state-led" initiative down our throats. And "state-led" is largely driven by Chamber of Commerce types who want non-thinking employees who don't challenge their bullshit. You are the perfect Common Core mouthpiece.

The rest of us has looked deeper, and are calling them out and taking them down.

It is NOT federally developed. It was state-led, and state-developed. Feds only provided financial assistance

LOL "only".... along with Gates Foundation.

It is NOT a curriculum.

Am earlier CC supporter today said that one of the advantages was a transferable curriculum or something like that.

Race To The Top is competetive grant funding that states OPT INTO. Race To The Top is not mandatory. It is state choice. And when states do opt in, they develop their OWN evaluation policies and criteria.

It is federal taxpayer money. Do you not get that?

COMMON CORE is a minimum standard.

It is a minimum standard that is not developmentally appropriate for many, many kids.

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B.) the "high stakes" aspect of it is LOCAL. NCLB does not mandate things like firing teachers if their students don't get good results, that is a LOCAL decision.

Didn't Race to the Top require that part of teacher evaluations be tied to testing?

And, NCLB required that kids be able to leave under achieving schools. That's pretty 'high stakes." Not local decision.

Race To The Top is competetive grant funding that states OPT INTO. Race To The Top is not mandatory. It is state choice. And when states do opt in, they develop their OWN evaluation policies and criteria.

^ And you don't have to test every kid every year. You can do it every two years or you can do a random sampling if you are trying to see how the school is doing.

Effort should be put into improving the overall lives of the students. When the students and families see that the school is trying to help them in more than just academic ways, the academics will follow. Trust and respect for the school will follow. It's a slow process. And we can't forget that coming to school with the right support from home makes the students ready for learning.

Most teachers care deeply about their students and want to help, but they need help too.

COMMON CORE is a minimum standard.

It is NOT a curriculum.

It is NOT a test.

It is NOT federally developed. It was state-led, and state-developed. Feds only provided financial assistance.

The TEST is mandated by NCLB, which is federal law.

The test is aligned to Common Core, because whatever the state standard is in place what you align it to.

But the TEST is also not federally developed. It was developed by a consortium of STATES.

GET IT STRAIGHT AND STOP BEING SUCH AN OBTUSE JACKASS WHO KEEPS TWISTING THE FACTS.

OKAY, "HONEY?"

B.) the "high stakes" aspect of it is LOCAL. NCLB does not mandate things like firing teachers if their students don't get good results, that is a LOCAL decision.

Didn't Race to the Top require that part of teacher evaluations be tied to testing?

And, NCLB required that kids be able to leave under achieving schools. That's pretty 'high stakes." Not local decision.

They only reason Common Core didn't have a testing requirement is because NCLB had that big testing whip written into it. And Arne Duncan has made it clear he likes to use his whip early and often on the states that dare to try and cross him by taking away a state's waivers that say EVERY child must be at grade standard by last year.

Wish I'd thought to put it that way. +1000