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AB Students Ought to Brace Themselves for the Next Phase of Common Core

Blog Post by Scott Smyers

There is so much going on as the school year comes to a close and summer begins. Most parents are not worrying about standardized testing and changes to the content of what is taught at each grade level. It just isn’t that much fun to think about and downright frustrating if you really want to understand the changes. It seems like a perfect time to legally secure broad sweeping changes to the educational system – when few are paying any attention.

PARCC/Common Core (hereafter CC) should be something every parent and citizen should be aware of by now. Acton was “selected” for the field testing this spring and we await the results....

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