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Yeah. Let's listen to Palin and Perry. Alaska and Texas are so well known for their top-tier education systems.
I am a teacher in NC, where the Common Core Standards will be implemented starting next school year. I have gone through the standards and attended numerous training sessions. The reality is that they are not so bad. They will definitely require some revision, but they are not really that radically different from what most states are doing now. The cost that Gallagher quotes is fictitious. There is nothing in the curriculum that would require such an extreme expense to implement.
Sarah Palin was the first to recognize the problem: By participating in President Obama's signature education initiative, the Common Core Standards, Alaska would lose control over its own curriculum.
On May 31, 2009, then-Gov. Palin announced Alaska would adopt a "watch and wait" attitude:
"If this initiative produces useful results, Alaska will remain free to incorporate them," Gov. Palin said, adding that "high expectations are not always created by new, mandated federal standards written on paper. They are created in the home, the community and the classroom."
Texas Gov. Rick Perry, to his credit, was the next to recognize a...
Next year you will have professional devo done in-house. Right?
Your district will probably spend that same money they spent this year focusing on CC. Right?
According to the report this now goes down as spending towards CC. Get it?
You'll by new texts as you do every year?
This goes down as CC spending in the report.
Technology improvements?
CC spending.
So, from my reading of the report it seems that the money they are getting just means that money will focus on CC. This is not more money in the districts. Because the costs on texts, tech, and pd in the four states not participating was 0. If you see the charts you'll see what I mean.