[timw0j]

Common Core doesn't really have much to do with the glut of standardized testing. Common Core is more about setting a guideline for lesson planning, allowing teachers across the country to share lessons and techniques to teach. It was developed by teachers for teachers.

Standardized testing is a completely different problem. There's this strange desire at the state and district level to boil everything down to a single metric that says "this kid was taught something" without looking at any of the data that can be provided by their day-to-day instructor.

[swasheck]

I agree that there's no link between CC and standardized testing, I was just attempting to note that all of these things when taken together with how they're being implemented are a collective disaster.

[timw0j]

Except that there's really nothing wrong with Common Core and if you talk to most teachers they're for it (disclaimer: my wife, sister, and sister-in-law are all teachers, and my parents are retired teachers).

Common Core is used as a political boogeyman against people who don't really understand what it's trying to accomplish.