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*Networks of association are interconnected thoughts, feelings, and memories that are active outside awareness and influence everything we do.
Problemsolving and
critical
thinking
This is what
good
teachers do
already
More wasted
time testing
New
Standards
Learn new
skills and
approaches
Being judged
by test
scores
Another
passing fad
Devalues
my
expertise
Makes use of
the skills I
have
I’m busy
enough
already
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Opposition
63.9
-
-
-
Tie the Hands
73.2
48
34
+14
Across State Lines
72.4
50
35
+15
Class and Color
71.7
50
37
+13
Changing World
71
51
36
+15
High Stakes
70.6
46
40
+6
Outcompete
71.1
44
39
+5
Transition
65.5
46
42
+4
Math Homework
67.1
41
44
-3
*Revised based on the results of the dial-testing.
*Revised based on the results of the dial-testing.
*Revised based on the results of the dial-testing.
Mean
%80-100
Margin
The Common Core is just another big government program that takes
education out of the hands of states and principals, teachers and parents,
and puts it in the hands of bureaucrats who probably haven't been in a
classroom or school since they were kids.
64.5
40
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Education should focus more on high standards and high-quality teaching
and less on high-stakes testing.
86
72
+47
The Common Core and other new standards like the Next Generation
Science Standards should be responsive to feedback coming from teachers
and parents, principals and other administrators at the local level, not
from politicians who haven't been in a classroom since they were kids.
80.8
60
+32
We have to make sure we leave time for basic skills, like cursive writing,
and don't displace other essential components of a well-rounded
education, like PE, music and dance, or art.
81.9
62
+33
The Common Core should allow school districts to eliminate so many of
the standardized tests that waste valuable classroom time, because if
we're teaching differently, we should be testing differently.
77.7
53
+21
American students should be able to compete with kids from anywhere in
the world, because when they graduate from high school, technical school,
or college, that's going to be their competition in a global economy.
78.7
54
+28
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*Revised based on the results of the dial-testing.
*Revised based on the results of the dial-testing.
*Revised based on the results of the dial-testing.
*Revised based on the results of the dial-testing.
*Revised based on the results of the dial-testing.