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The debacle of Race to the Top, Common Core State Standards, and standardized testing continues to metastasize into an out of control disease, and many parents are becoming aware of the pernicious effects on their children’s school experience.

The CCSS were created to bring a deeper and more meaningful education to students. There is nothing wrong with that, but there is a salient difference between teaching for rigor and relevance and teaching to the test.

Parents want and need to be advocates for success for their children in school; it is up to schools to provide every mean necessary for this to happen.

In the coming years we may have what really will be the end of education as people know it.

Most English teachers are letting it be known that literature is something that they teach well and wish to continue that pattern of success.