State education Superintendent John Barge told Cobb Republicans at their Saturday breakfast he’s concerned about the looming Common Core Standards-related national assessment of students “because in my mind, that gets to a federal curriculum, because what gets tested gets taught, and at that point somebody else is controlling what’s going on in my classrooms.”
That’s the core problem with Core. Barge said he had requested that Georgia be given flexibility on the national tests now being developed by a group of collaborating states taking part in the Partnership for Assessment College and Careers.
“They’re not interested in allowing us the flexibility to do that,” he said, pointing out that the time is quickly approaching for Georgia to make a decision on whether to stay in the Common Core program.
via The Marietta Daily Journal – Common Core will bring national assessment federal curriculum.
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