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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Keep telling yourself the lie. Your kids will find out the hard way next April when they're the ones vomiting.  [/quote]

I just posted from the NY State website that states they are using the curriculum materials by the companies who wrote them to directly align to Common Core standards. I'm sure the PP will find a way to try and refute this, but the website specifically details the four companies they get their materials from and specifically state they were chosen BECAUSE they are common core approved. You and I know the truth.[/quote]

Anyone can say that their materials are based on Common Core.   New York State added a great deal to its standards, above and beyond what was stated in Common Core.   The tests they chose to design themselves isn't the same as the PARCC that is coming out.   Even so -- note what the teacher above said -- the first 2 days of their NYS test for math was fine for 3rd grade.   But the third day was very hard.   Their test was overly ambitious.   That was NYStates decision to create such a hard test.   Common Core didn't require them to have 3 days of testing, or to add all those extra standards.[/quote]

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