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    <title><![CDATA[Re: RCSD adopting 'common core' curriculum]]></title>

    
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      <![CDATA[As annoying as all the commotion around the Common Core is, it is possible that by adopting this "reform" and seeing it not make a difference in student performance or graduation rates might convince a few people that the problem isn't inside the schools. It's the students who arrive and their various problems and issues that they arrive with that prevent learning as well as with the problems of poverty and the neighborhoods where safety and security are a more important issue than school.<br>
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The only reform that can be implemented in the schools at this point that would have a significant impact is ending social promotion.
        
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          <a href="http://www.rochestercitynewspaper.com/rochester/Profile?oid=2135352">Yugoboy</a>]]>
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