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Re:Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. Education Reform by wiglaf1979 on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @11:40AM (#21693909)
In principle it should be but in this case the devil was in the details.

Take the Quadratic Expression forms

  o Standard Form: ax^2 + bx + c
  o Factored Form: a(x – r1)(x – r2)
  o Vertex Form: a(x – h)^2 + k
Arkansas could decide that in Algebra I all students must know those three forms. But the book I had was created off of a standard that said that the Factored/Vertex forms weren't needed until Algebra II so it didn't cover all of them.

I would have needed to recognize that shortcoming and figured out a way to cover it so that my students didn't appear to be lacking according to the ever-shifting standards. Not impossible but arbitrarily stupid to redesign the standards every couple of years.

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Re:Test Scores Cast Doubt on U.S. Education Reform by Ididntdothis on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @11:52AM (#21694025)
" redesign the standards every couple of years."

That seems to be the real problem.

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