One of the biggest misconceptions about the Common Core State Standards are where they came from. Depending on who you're listening to, you might be told that it's a federal initiative, or that it's the love child of ed reformers and the privatizaters of education.
I was going to write out a whole long description of where the CCSS came from, but you know what? It's all on the Common Core website, under resources.
They've put together a nice FAQ that addresses almost every misconception I've read or heard.
They also have a whole page dedicated to the process by which the standards were written, vetted, and adopted.
And my personal favorite, a Myth vs Fact page, combating a good deal of the misinformation out there. Think of it as a special snopes edition of the CCSS.
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