Originally Posted by HowlerKarma
Yes, the major problems that we've been seeing are in terms of inflexibility and implementation more than flaws in the ideals of CC.

That is, a Social Studies teacher with poor-to-mediocre written communication skills and zero training in improving/teaching student writing is not the best person to be 'shaping' writing with an eye toward improvement. Ugh.

Exactly the issue I see too. Great ideas in theory, but, once again, people are telling teachers what needs to be done in the classroom to make things better, but are providing no training whatsoever to allow teachers to do a good job at it.