amylou,
thank you, I've been looking at so many links in researching the Common Core, that I've gotten some of the links jumbled. I've backtracked through my link list and see that this where I first began to understand
Common Core as having a specific curriculum component... there is a "placement" of certain academic content, for example "Grapes of Wrath", as shown at CCSS links including http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy and in the Appendices linked from that page. To those who addressed the HSLDA, not the potential impact of Common Core on gifted students... yes the HSLDA does have their own agenda, they are well-known advocates for homeschool rights in the USA.
Is anyone else researching the Common Core? Have others read the standards? It appears this may be the framework within which any future educational advocacy for gifted kids may occur...? Are others trying to become familiar with it?
