RttT is for Race to the Top, the program I mentioned at the beginning of my post. It is NCLB on steroids.
Just spoke with a colleague... her take is the $$$$ required to implement. What a shame... I have been saying, how can we implement a new curriculum without teachers being trained. I can do the math, but what about the teachers of earlier-grade students. A lot of skills have been “moved down”, and my concern is those teachers do not have the math background/training to teach these skills. BTW, every year I battle - at 7th grade - students who still have not mastered basic multiplication facts, long division with whole numbers and decimals, and have not a clue about fractions!