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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/02/6-reasons-to-reject-common-core-k-3-standards-and-6-axioms-to-guide-policy/

[b]As a teacher for 24 years [/b]who has spent her entire career teaching inner city youth, all I can say is YES! [b]The standards are inappropriate for young children[/b]. Today was the last day of [b]NYS[/b] math tests, and [b]I had to supervise lovely, bright, hard-working students who were crying, sitting in fetal positions, asking me questions I was not allowed to answer, and two of them ended up in the nurse's office throwing up. [/b]The ELA test was entirely appropriate for 5th graders, not the third graders who endured 3 1/2 hours of it without the slightest chance of understanding it. The first two days of the math test were fair, full of questions that third graders can understand and reasonably answer. That was not the case today[b]. All of the adults had trouble answering a number of the questions[/b]. [b]Each question required 2 or 3 different computations and a level of math comprehension well beyond what a child this age could truly be expected to answer.[/b] Why are people with no credentials in these areas creating the standards, curriculum and testing? If this was any other field, there would be an uproar. Imagine if elementary teachers were creating standards for lawyers, if doctors created the standards for bankers, if politicians created the standards for medical care? Would it be acceptable? We are losing a generation of children to nonsense. It should be intolerable for everyone.[/quote]

New York State.   Not Common Core state Standards.   New York State.[/quote]

From OHIO:
http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2014/04/common_core_tests_are_tough_fo.html

Students taking the tests in trial runs this spring are reporting harder questions, being asked for more complex answers than they normally have to give and not having enough time to provide the full answers they want.

“The questions were beyond where they are typically asked,” said Joelle Magyar, assistant superintendent of the Mayfield school district. [b]She said the exams left some students frustrated, and a few in tears. [/b]

agyar said Mayfield middle school students reported that questions on the exams asked them to cite multiple examples in essays t[b]hey didn’t have time to finish reading. She said one student said he felt like he had to write an essay in 45 minutes that his class normally spends a week on.[/b]

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