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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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.

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This man is a physics professor, and yet he doesn't provide basic information like what the evaluations he's talking about were, when they took place (besides "recently"), what they were testing, and whom they were testing. He's also making a basic factual error, in that the Common Core standards do not say anything about what a child is supposed to know at the beginning of the year; only at the end of the year. This doesn't inspire confidence in me.

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