Teachers often complain about the need to spend sometimes as much as the first three months of the school year bringing their students up to the level required to begin introducing new grade level appropriate content.

The paradox is that often those same teachers cannot agree on what the content of that prior coursework should be. If they cannot agree on the content of prior coursework, how can they NOT expect their to have to spend three months the next year bringing their students up to where they ‘think’ they should be?

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