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March 12, 2014 Atlanta: Sen. William Ligon and supporters watch as his bill to end Common Core in Georgia fails to receive enough votes to pass committee Wednesday March 12, 2014. BRANT SANDERLIN /BSANDERLIN@AJC.COM

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By Maureen Downey

Thanks to the Georgia teachers who responded to our solicitation here on the blog for student essays on Common Core State Standards. The package ran in the Sunday AJC to great response. (The full pieces can be found on MyAJC.com)

Here are excerpts from some of them:

Quinn Mulholland is a student at Henry Grady High School in Atlanta:

The standards need to be fixed, not dismantled.

The need they address — the watering-down of state education standards to allow students to meet the increasingly unreasonable standards set by No Child Left Behind — is real. And the goal of giving all students a quality education is a worthy one. But instead of emphasizing high-stakes testing, the Common Core should focus more on exposing students to a broad range of subjects, including the arts. It should not just prepare students for college, but also offer them the opportunity to gain vocational skills. It should offer the same resources to Students weigh in on Common Core | Get Schooled | www.ajc.com: