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user-inactivated  ·  4302 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: A Child Left Behind

That's what the Common Core standards are; standards for teaching reading, writing, science, and math. And testing to see whether they've been achieved or not is an assessment tool for the administrators of the school system to see who is doing well so they can figure out how and train others to do the same.