Teacher tells of throwing students to the "testing wolves."

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3. No.

The Common Core is just a set of standards, and it's not a cookie-cutter approach to learning any more than any set of standards.

It's not necessarily the standards...any standards, although I personally would prefer that standards be few and broad, rather than huge documents many pages long breaking down knowledge and skills into isolated portions for measurement.

It's the misuse and abuse of standards that is abusive to students, to teachers, and to public education.

It's the misuse of those standards to mandate top-down, authoritarian standardization of curriculum and instruction, and the use of high-stakes tests based on those standards to further abuse the system.

The CCSS are not bad in themselves. It's the use of them as a weapon against public education, against teachers, and against students that "sucks."