Val posted this elsewhere.
http://giftedissues.davidsongifted....eo_criticizing_Common_Co.html#Post175160
Originally Posted by Val
The math standards committee was heavily composed of mathematicians. It was headed by this guy (William McCallum), head of the math department at the University of Arizona. Look at his CV (link on the left) if you doubt his math credentials. The co-chair is a professor of math and physics at Bennington College. Then there are Hung-Hsi Wu, a professor emeritus of mathematics at UC Berkeley and Roger Howe, a mathematician at Yale.

The list of committee members is listed here. It's composed of mathematicians and educators. ... These standards are serious and were written by people who know their subjects.

In my google search "common core acceleration" I came across this
http://commoncoretools.me/forums/topic/acceleration/
which is a forum thread with Bill McCallum responding to question about Common Core and acceleration.