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As you say, there are many possibilities, only one of which is that the test developer doesn't understand the standard because the standard is poorly written. The "bad test question = Common Core standards are bad!!!" people are disregarding all of the other possibilities. [/quote]

And, repeatedly, you refuse to accept that there are standards that are poorly written.  What color is your Kool-Aid?
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Could you provide some examples of standards that are poorly written, please?[/quote]

No, because his has been done over and over again. We said they are bad, you say they are not. No point to that.

Maybe this can get through your pea-sized brain: There are 90 kindergarten reading standards to MASTER in 180 days of school. So much for the fewer, deeper garbage. It's a race for students and teachers from the morning the defenseless 5 year olds walk into school. And those are just the reading standards. They also have to do math that many of them are not ready to do, and MASTER it. [/quote]

You: You should admit that there are bad standards!
Me: OK, could you post some please?
You: No!

And I really don't think that "90 kindergarten reading standards to MASTER!" is a good measure of the appropriateness of the kindergarten standards, let alone of the Common Core standards as a whole. (If the kindergarten standards are bad, does that mean that all of the other standards for grades 1-12 are also bad? I don think so.) A lot of the kindergarten standards are related. For example, all of these separate substandards are really just detail supporting the main standard:

[i]CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1
Demonstrate command of the conventions of standard English grammar and usage when writing or speaking.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1.a
Print many upper- and lowercase letters.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1.b
Use frequently occurring nouns and verbs.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1.c
Form regular plural nouns orally by adding /s/ or /es/ (e.g., dog, dogs; wish, wishes).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1.d
Understand and use question words (interrogatives) (e.g., who, what, where, when, why, how).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1.e
Use the most frequently occurring prepositions (e.g., to, from, in, out, on, off, for, of, by, with).

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.L.K.1.f
Produce and expand complete sentences in shared language activities. [/i]

And some of the kindergarten standards are for things that every child has already mastered before entering kindergarten -- or so I've read right here.[/quote]

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