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[quote=Anonymous]The Common Core apologists are always whining and cooing "What standards are bad? Which number specifically? Why is it bad? My child could do that when he was 3! Don't you think children should have standards?"

Here's an article that explains how many of today's kindergartners are being mistreated from their first years in school:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2015/01/13/report-requiring-kindergartners-to-read-as-common-core-does-may-harm-some/

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[b]Report: Requiring kindergartners to read — as Common Core does — may harm some[/b]

"Here from the report are some examples from the Core that the authors cite as inappropriate for many kindergartners:

The CCSS website states, “Students advancing through the grades are expected to meet each year’s grade-specific standards and retain or further develop skills and understandings mastered in preceding grades.” However, there is no evidence that mastering these standards in kindergarten rather than in first grade brings lasting gains.[b] To achieve them usually calls for long hours of drill and worksheets[/b] — and reduces other vital areas of learning such as math, science, social
    studies, art, music and creative play.

Fluency
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.4: Read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.

Print Concepts
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.1.D: Recognize and name all upper- and lowercase letters of the alphabet.

Phonics and Word Recognition
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RF.K.3.B: Associate the long and short sounds with common spellings (graphemes) for the five major vowels.

Integration of Knowledge and Ideas
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.RI.K.9: With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

Research to Build and Present Knowledge
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.W.K.7: Participate in shared research and writing projects.

Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
    CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.4.B: Use the most frequently occurring inflections and affixes (e.g., -ed, -s, re-, un-, pre-, -ful, -less) as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word.

The authors call for the withdrawal and rewriting of the kindergarten Common Core standards."

and earlier in the article

'The authors — Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin and Joan Wolfsheimer Almon — found that:

Many children are not developmentally ready to read in kindergarten, yet the Common Core State Standards require them to do just that. This is leading to inappropriate classroom practices.
        No research documents long-term gains from learning to read in kindergarten."

and more

"The report says that kindergarten has since the 1980s become increasingly academic — with big pushes from President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind and President Obama’s Race to the Top — and that today many children are being asked to do things they are not ready to do. It says:

Under the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) the snowball has escalated into an avalanche which threatens to destroy appropriate and effective approaches to early education. The kindergarten standards, in use in over 40 states, place huge emphasis on print literacy and state bluntly that, by the end of kindergarten, children are to “read emergent-reader texts with purpose and understanding.” Large amounts of time and money are being devoted to this goal, and its impact is felt strongly in many preschools as well.

[b]    Many children are not developmentally ready to read in kindergarten. In addition, the pressure of implementing the standards leads many kindergarten teachers to resort to inappropriate didactic methods combined with frequent testing. [/b]"

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