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Of course it's measurable. Do you not know what "many" means? Would you be happier if the standard said, "K child should write at least 10 letters"?[/quote]

For one thing, according to Merriam Webster, "many" is a large number that is indefinite. So, one K teacher may accept 10 and another may not.  It is not a standard.

Now, I suggest you go look up "standard". [/quote]

Here you go. What's your point?
[i]

: a level of quality, achievement, etc., that is considered acceptable or desirable

standards : ideas about morally correct and acceptable behavior

: something that is very good and that is used to make judgments about the quality of other things
[/i]

Would you think that

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

was a good standard if it instead said "Print 14 upper- and 10 lowercase letters", or would you then criticize it as overly prescriptive?[/quote]

Obviously you must have intended that question as rhetorical, to make a point.  OF COURSE they would criticize it as "overly prescriptive" - they already have been whining that Common Core is overly prescriptive for 100 pages.  Where Common Core offers flexibility, they will whine that it's vague or unmeasurable and therefore impossible to implement, where Common Core provides specificity, they will whine that it's overly prescriptive and therefore impossible to implement.  That is their M.O. - for lack of any actual argument, for lack of any actual consistency, they rationalize some way to oppose in these kinds of profoundly hypocritical ways to desperately try and find some way to twist and critique so that it's wrong no matter what, and 100 pages of this nonsense has already proven that abundantly.[/quote]

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