Reposted from Christel Swasey’s blog:

http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2014/04/18/just-minimum-standards-or-a-national-coffle/

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Some people get hot round the collar when the Common Core Standards Initiative is blamed for the absurd Common Core-aligned horrible worksheets. 

“Common Core is just minimum, state-created, better standards,” they insist.

Few people understand th