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I mean Common Core State Standard. Most states adopted it, a few rejected it. Some dropped out. Do you think there will be more drop out states?
If you mean the standards which state the various things students should have mastered by when, I don't think many more will drop (part of the reason being the ****load of money involved). Plus, having a statement that students should have mastered X by Y isn't necessarily a bad thing.
If you mean some of the new curricula and instruction being implemented, then yes, I think some of those will change. Especially when it becomes clear that "wanting" students to be cognitively past what is reasonable for a particular age isn't working.
If CC were just a set of concrete standards, it would probably go and be modified over time. But since the "standards" and the "implementation" and the "content" are so closely interwoven, I think it will flutter around, create a lot of pain and anguish as it damages another generation of students, before it morphs into the next greatest thing under a new name.
I think CC started out as a good idea for standards, but like so many efforts, too many people tried to us it to force their own version of "how" down onto local schools with too varied a population for a single one size fits all. For example, spark plugs are designed around common standards for thread and length, but that leaves a lot of room for different spark plugs to fit in the same hole. CC implementation is like trying to force fit AC spark plugs into a diesel engine.
From what I understand of this bill, it shifts the responsibility to the states so I'm guessing it's up to each state. Unfortunately, the man who wrote Common Core is president of the college boards and several states including mine will now be taking the SAT instead of whatever the test of the moment was. My guess is the SAT will have things in CC form. My biggest beef with Common Core wasn't so much the standards as it was the age inappropriate math techniques forced on schools through testing and the rush to put it in schools so that just about every school system had an awful rollout.
Annual testing will continue. I get a feeling that common core is here to stay.
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