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Common Core is just fine as a set of standards and has a good shot at being adopted around the world, so we need to get over it. Common Core is going to lead to a lot more innovative solutions, because the market of students on it will be large. It's very nice from a computer science standpoint as well. Check out the game we built at Zeal. While it's a nice simple game on the surface, behind the scenes we are maintaining a complete map of everything every child has mastered in Common Core Math and Literacy K-8, which lets us figure out an ordering of skills to learn and what to do if a child is struggling on a given skill. This is the kind of thing that has been solved in every other industry, but Common Core enables in education.