Standards are being created at all levels of education, not just at 'Common Core', and it's worth asking why. Cindy Lutenbacher writes, "In creating these standards, Achieve, the governors and the school officials ignored the vast body of truly independent research that shows such 'standards' and their inextricably linked standardized testing are worse than folly and are sending our children in the exact opposite direction of what they need. This group of very rich people ignored this body of research that shows that the single most powerful factor in education gaps is poverty and not standardized testing. Did they forget that the United States has the second highest rate of children in poverty of any industrialized country in the world?" Via Jim Burke.
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