re: Common Core coming to DoD schools

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My wife just started teaching a year ago and before she did, we thought Common Core was the reason our kids were being taught these ridiculous methods in elementary school. Turns out, as a teacher, Common Core just tells you which standards to teach, not how to teach them.

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Bingo!!
Common Core is a set of standards. Not math workbooks. Not homework. And not your kids teachers teaching method. Implantation of common core standards is at the local level. If a teacher is ineffective at teaching common core it isn't necessarily common cores fault.
The test may be a different story, but the essence of common core is needed at the federal level to be able to judge the education of American students at the world level and amongst ourselves.