To the best of my knowledge, CC has no standardised tests associated with it. The state of Indiana has its own tests, the ISTEP. Other tests that kids have to take, at one time or another are the PSAT, SAT and ACT and AP tests. There are plenty of tests that students have to take or need to take, to advance academically. If the CC goals help to better prepare them for those tests then what's the big deal? In all the reading from non-paranoid and unbiased sources that I've found, I can't find anything really bad about CC. It's just another program to attempt to change things in the government schools for the better. It's certainly a step above Bush's No Child Left Behind. Add in the fact that it was crafted by the states themselves and their education heads and I find even less to yell about....to ready the students to best pass the standardized testing being so benignly constructed, right?