Common Core: Your preschoolers are too dumb for kindergarten

[Anonymous]

So, this is where we are at now in our country. Claiming 4-year-olds are too stupid for kindergarten. I can't believe anybody is gullible enough to be for the Common Core.



http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-education-standards-20150601-story.html

The Common Core can't speed up child development

Recent evaluations of the state's preschoolers have determined that only 47 percent are ready for kindergarten, compared to 83 percent judged ready last year. This drastic drop isn't the result of an abrupt, catastrophic decline in the cognitive abilities of our children. Instead it results from a re-definition of kindergarten readiness, which now means being able to succeed academically at a level far beyond anything expected in the past. For example, a child entering kindergarten is now expected to know the difference between informative/explanatory writing and opinion writing. The concern is that preschoolers without that knowledge will not succeed at meeting the new higher-level Common-Core standards. However, I think a more pressing concern is: Why do we have educational standards that are not aligned with even the most basic facts of human development? Clearly these test results show that the problem is with the standards, not the children.




http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0615/most-young-students-arent-ready-for-kindergarten-according-to-common-core.html

Most young students aren’t ready for kindergarten, according to Common Core


According to Common Core testing statistics, which were just released on May 19, less than half of Maryland’s kindergartners are actually ready to take the Common Core tests that schools are required to use as an assessment tool.

The Capital Gazette and WBAL 1090 have reported that only 47% of Maryland kindergartners have the basic skills needed in math, language, and literacy in order to understand the Common Core tests for their age level.

[Anonymous]

Common Core and the tests associated with it are such a crock of shit. This is hyper reality.

[Anonymous]

When are we going to stand up and REFUSE to tolerate this bullshit. This is so stressful and pointless if not downright damaging to our kids. Who is standing up against this. You hear a lot of dissent but no action. Where are the mass protests?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Common Core and the tests associated with it are such a crock of shit. This is hyper reality.

+ 1 million!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When are we going to stand up and REFUSE to tolerate this bullshit. This is so stressful and pointless if not downright damaging to our kids. Who is standing up against this. You hear a lot of dissent but no action. Where are the mass protests?

In New York. People are drinking the Kool-Aid here. Just wait until the test scores roll in though.

[Anonymous]

Well, what do you expect with K standards when there were not any early childhood teachers on the committees that developed the standards. NONE! The committees had few teachers on them and none from early childhood. There were not any early childhood experts either. Standards were written mostly by college professors and state level "experts" with little experience in elementary education.

[Anonymous]

Written by an award winning high school English teacher from Georgia:

Don’t tell us about testing data.

I do not believe that standardized tests (End of Course Tests, PARCC exams, Graduation Tests, Georgia Milestones, AP Exams, the SAT, the ACT, IQ tests, or any other) have any value whatsoever, for anybody except those who make money from them. In fact, I believe the use of those tests is inherently and necessarily damaging to all of us, including to those students who do very well on them.

Educators talk about and analyze test score data, and supposedly let that data “drive instruction,” but the truth is that numbers and measurements gleaned from those tests are not data.

They are a flat, bleached replacement of data, because they replace the substance of learning with an abstraction, a false image of learning, much the way Descartes replaced the idea of physical things with the concept of graphable spatial extension. The acts of thinking, learning, and knowing, are not objects that can be replaced with abstractions about thinking, learning, and knowing. In that specific but crucial sense, all school test data are fake.

From: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/08/14/seven-things-teachers-are-sick-of-hearing-from-school-reformers/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So, this is where we are at now in our country. Claiming 4-year-olds are too stupid for kindergarten. I can't believe anybody is gullible enough to be for the Common Core.



http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-education-standards-20150601-story.html

The Common Core can't speed up child development

Recent evaluations of the state's preschoolers have determined that only 47 percent are ready for kindergarten, compared to 83 percent judged ready last year. This drastic drop isn't the result of an abrupt, catastrophic decline in the cognitive abilities of our children. Instead it results from a re-definition of kindergarten readiness, which now means being able to succeed academically at a level far beyond anything expected in the past. For example, a child entering kindergarten is now expected to know the difference between informative/explanatory writing and opinion writing. The concern is that preschoolers without that knowledge will not succeed at meeting the new higher-level Common-Core standards. However, I think a more pressing concern is: Why do we have educational standards that are not aligned with even the most basic facts of human development? Clearly these test results show that the problem is with the standards, not the children.




http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0615/most-young-students-arent-ready-for-kindergarten-according-to-common-core.html

Most young students aren’t ready for kindergarten, according to Common Core


According to Common Core testing statistics, which were just released on May 19, less than half of Maryland’s kindergartners are actually ready to take the Common Core tests that schools are required to use as an assessment tool.

The Capital Gazette and WBAL 1090 have reported that only 47% of Maryland kindergartners have the basic skills needed in math, language, and literacy in order to understand the Common Core tests for their age level.

Interesting. Except there are no "Common Core tests" in Kindergarten.

[Anonymous]

I have yet to see people argue about the downsides of Common Core (which there are, of course) who actually know a thing or 2 about it. Lots of misinformation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, this is where we are at now in our country. Claiming 4-year-olds are too stupid for kindergarten. I can't believe anybody is gullible enough to be for the Common Core.



http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-education-standards-20150601-story.html

The Common Core can't speed up child development

Recent evaluations of the state's preschoolers have determined that only 47 percent are ready for kindergarten, compared to 83 percent judged ready last year. This drastic drop isn't the result of an abrupt, catastrophic decline in the cognitive abilities of our children. Instead it results from a re-definition of kindergarten readiness, which now means being able to succeed academically at a level far beyond anything expected in the past. For example, a child entering kindergarten is now expected to know the difference between informative/explanatory writing and opinion writing. The concern is that preschoolers without that knowledge will not succeed at meeting the new higher-level Common-Core standards. However, I think a more pressing concern is: Why do we have educational standards that are not aligned with even the most basic facts of human development? Clearly these test results show that the problem is with the standards, not the children.




http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0615/most-young-students-arent-ready-for-kindergarten-according-to-common-core.html

Most young students aren’t ready for kindergarten, according to Common Core


According to Common Core testing statistics, which were just released on May 19, less than half of Maryland’s kindergartners are actually ready to take the Common Core tests that schools are required to use as an assessment tool.

The Capital Gazette and WBAL 1090 have reported that only 47% of Maryland kindergartners have the basic skills needed in math, language, and literacy in order to understand the Common Core tests for their age level.

Interesting. Except there are no "Common Core tests" in Kindergarten.

How do you know this?

[Anonymous]

This article in taking the fact that 47% of kids in MD public PreK (a program limited to kid who either have disabilities, don't speak English, or are considered at high risk of academic failure) did something, and extrapolating it to "PreK students in MD".

Given that it was written by adults who presumably graduated school pre-Common Core, and is being shared by people here who presumably did too, that's a pretty a compelling argument for reforming math instruction and raising standards, at least in the area of statistics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, this is where we are at now in our country. Claiming 4-year-olds are too stupid for kindergarten. I can't believe anybody is gullible enough to be for the Common Core.



http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-education-standards-20150601-story.html

The Common Core can't speed up child development

Recent evaluations of the state's preschoolers have determined that only 47 percent are ready for kindergarten, compared to 83 percent judged ready last year. This drastic drop isn't the result of an abrupt, catastrophic decline in the cognitive abilities of our children. Instead it results from a re-definition of kindergarten readiness, which now means being able to succeed academically at a level far beyond anything expected in the past. For example, a child entering kindergarten is now expected to know the difference between informative/explanatory writing and opinion writing. The concern is that preschoolers without that knowledge will not succeed at meeting the new higher-level Common-Core standards. However, I think a more pressing concern is: Why do we have educational standards that are not aligned with even the most basic facts of human development? Clearly these test results show that the problem is with the standards, not the children.




http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0615/most-young-students-arent-ready-for-kindergarten-according-to-common-core.html

Most young students aren’t ready for kindergarten, according to Common Core


According to Common Core testing statistics, which were just released on May 19, less than half of Maryland’s kindergartners are actually ready to take the Common Core tests that schools are required to use as an assessment tool.

The Capital Gazette and WBAL 1090 have reported that only 47% of Maryland kindergartners have the basic skills needed in math, language, and literacy in order to understand the Common Core tests for their age level.

Interesting. Except there are no "Common Core tests" in Kindergarten.

How do you know this?

Because I am a school administrator.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So, this is where we are at now in our country. Claiming 4-year-olds are too stupid for kindergarten. I can't believe anybody is gullible enough to be for the Common Core.



http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-education-standards-20150601-story.html

The Common Core can't speed up child development

Recent evaluations of the state's preschoolers have determined that only 47 percent are ready for kindergarten, compared to 83 percent judged ready last year. This drastic drop isn't the result of an abrupt, catastrophic decline in the cognitive abilities of our children. Instead it results from a re-definition of kindergarten readiness, which now means being able to succeed academically at a level far beyond anything expected in the past. For example, a child entering kindergarten is now expected to know the difference between informative/explanatory writing and opinion writing. The concern is that preschoolers without that knowledge will not succeed at meeting the new higher-level Common-Core standards. However, I think a more pressing concern is: Why do we have educational standards that are not aligned with even the most basic facts of human development? Clearly these test results show that the problem is with the standards, not the children.




http://www.thebaynet.com/articles/0615/most-young-students-arent-ready-for-kindergarten-according-to-common-core.html

Most young students aren’t ready for kindergarten, according to Common Core


According to Common Core testing statistics, which were just released on May 19, less than half of Maryland’s kindergartners are actually ready to take the Common Core tests that schools are required to use as an assessment tool.

The Capital Gazette and WBAL 1090 have reported that only 47% of Maryland kindergartners have the basic skills needed in math, language, and literacy in order to understand the Common Core tests for their age level.

Interesting. Except there are no "Common Core tests" in Kindergarten.

How do you know this?

Because I am a school administrator.

PP is correct. There is no CC based testing in K. My dc finished K last year in mcps. They do get assessed on their reading levels for reading groups. They start MAP testing in 1st grade, but that is not related to CC. PARCC is related to CC, and those are only tested for grades 3 on up.

[Anonymous]

Wait, you don't say? Misinformation and lies about Common Core? NEVAH!!!

(I'm kidding, I have heard a lot of nuttery as well).

[Anonymous]

Yes PP we know who you are. How do you have the time for all this? Seriously.