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By Maureen Downey

I asked mathematicians to respond to a recent critique on the blog of Common Core State Standards in math. 

Here is a response to the critique and to the state's decision to pull out of the consortium creating new tests aligned to the Common Core.

Barbara Lee has been a mathematics professor for 25 years, a district instructional mathematics coordinator and Georgia state school improvement specialist.

Lee's work in the field totals 41 years of what she calls “exceptional experience in education in the state of Georgia. Also, having completed the following degrees of bachelor, master, and specialist in mathematics education from Georgia’s fine universities gives me the authority to speak out on the need for Georgia’s children to have equal access to standards that will allow them to excel and compete with the children from 44 other states for a quality education that will prevail wherever they attend college or pursue a career."

She writes:

Many parents will refuse to move to Georgia because we are “afraid to take assessments that will allow parents to know how we compare with the rest of the nation.” Threatening to take away the one thing that can ease parents’ minds about the quality of education that their children would