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I think that the parents need to know that they are challenging.
I can remember when the Common Core were first released,
that the question was that they were too challenging.
And I really thought about that as a mom.
My son was a third-grader at the time, and when the initial criticism
came out that the standards were too challenging,
I thought about what my own third-grader was able to do, and it wasn't.
They were nudging them -- they were nudging him in the right direction
to really expand on his thinking and to really develop at a deeper level.
I was mindful of the former standards that we had, but -- and it wasn't that
they were bad standards, but there were so many of them.
And to really wade through and find what was key to
what I was doing in the classroom was a little more difficult than it is.
I find the Common Core to be challenging and to amp up
what we’re doing in the classroom.
I think that it gives teachers real common ground.
It cements us, not just in the English language arts area,
not just in math, but across curriculum.
And that’s something that we lacked before.
We didn't have that bridge across the different curriculum.
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