K-12 teachers: What tools would you like to see developed to help with the Common Core Standards?

Your most effective tool is to go to the county recorder and inspect the records for your property. There will be some codes. Ask what they mean. One of them will be "Residential". Tell the recorder that is a mistake, it should be "Private Property". Suddenly there is no property tax levied on your home. If enough people do this, since schools are supported by property taxes, school boards will be forced to start doing their jobs, or else they won't get paid.

The problem is not standards or requirements, the problem is that educators only want the little lumps to shut up and don't embarrass anybody. They stopped teaching civics in the first half of the 20th century so nobody would know how to control the schools. Then in the 1950s they built large centrally located facilities so parents could not have direct influence on them, and switched from normal arithmetic to "new math" idiocy so parents could not help with homework. They have not done any of this in secret: they have always said right up front that their goals were to make the students easier to control.

Now they are slightly embarrassed by public reaction, communicated through federal officials, so they investigate and suggest something or other. It is insane to allow people who have failed to perform their jobs to investigate their own failures. It is up to the parents to figure out how to abolish this rotten system and find some other way to teach their children the things they need to know.

Anything addressed to teachers is meaningless. Teachers have nothing to do with the way schools are run. They are only scapegoats.