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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The comprehension standards on the first page of this thread might as well be summarized as "understand a story and be able to talk about it." That's not beyond the scope of kindergarten.  
 
 
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And, you don't think your kindergartener would do this without Common Core?  K teachers have always done this.[/quote]

I don't understand. Is the argument that the standards are too hard and demanding, or that they are unnecessary because they were being done already (in which case obviously they are not too hard or demanding)?

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They are shitty all the way through because they were rushed and not tested. The "standards" are too abstract in younger ages where children are concrete thinkers.   They are poorly and vaguely written. They immediately demand reading levels way above what kids are reading now.

And Common Core has totally radical and ineffective way of teaching math -- it will leave our kids years behind in math skills by the time they graduate from high school.

http://wheresthemath.com/curriculum-reviews/explicit-instruction-or-reform/

Explicit Instruction versus Reform

“Despite decades of advocacy,[b] there is no body of evidence based on randomised, controlled experiments demonstrating the superiority of inquiry-based over explicit instruction[/b]. There is a huge body of evidence from around the globe demonstrating the advantages of explicitly showing learners how to solve problems as opposed to having them discover how to solve the same problems."[/quote]

The methods used to teach math are curriculum, not standards.[/quote]

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