Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Meanwhile, we've got incredible increases in ADHD in children. Could there be an environmental component? And why is the rate so much higher in the US than in other countries?

Is a lack of recess and creative classroom time boring students and causing their minds to "wander"? Is it possible that trying to make students focus before they are ready causes them to seek distractions?

One has to wonder what the effects might be of forcing students to focus on cognitive processes for which their brains are not ready.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255195.php

Oh, sure ADHD is because of Common Core too. As are rabies, flatulence and vampirism. Or was that because of gay marriage?

I don't think the PP said anything about Common Core. The person mentioned recess time and lack of creativity. Nothing about Common Core there. You're making an assumption.

Anonymous wrote:
Meanwhile, we've got incredible increases in ADHD in children. Could there be an environmental component? And why is the rate so much higher in the US than in other countries?

Is a lack of recess and creative classroom time boring students and causing their minds to "wander"? Is it possible that trying to make students focus before they are ready causes them to seek distractions?

One has to wonder what the effects might be of forcing students to focus on cognitive processes for which their brains are not ready.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255195.php

Oh, sure ADHD is because of Common Core too. As are rabies, flatulence and vampirism. Or was that because of gay marriage?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They received THOUSANDS of comments including from numerous groups. Why should one group's comments take priority and precedence over any other group's comments?

There are also groups of so-called "scientists" who signed on to letters denying that climate change is happening. Yet most people don't feel compelled to drop everything to do a 180 because there are a lot of people who disagree with them as well.

and we don't know how many comments were positive.

They were almost certainly shellacked in the comments -- otherwise they would have made THEM ALL PUBLIC!

They are hiding their ineptitude.

ASSUMPTION.

Meanwhile, we've got incredible increases in ADHD in children. Could there be an environmental component? And why is the rate so much higher in the US than in other countries?

Is a lack of recess and creative classroom time boring students and causing their minds to "wander"? Is it possible that trying to make students focus before they are ready causes them to seek distractions?

One has to wonder what the effects might be of forcing students to focus on cognitive processes for which their brains are not ready.

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/255195.php

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Who's Edward Miller of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, when he's at home?

" It was written by Edward Miller, a writer and teacher who lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He is the co-author of “Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School,” "

When and where was Edward Miller a K-3 classroom teacher?

They were almost certainly shellacked in the comments -- otherwise they would have made THEM ALL PUBLIC!

They are hiding their ineptitude.

+10000

And, like the guy said, there were no Early Childhood people. Read the bios.

Anonymous wrote:They received THOUSANDS of comments including from numerous groups. Why should one group's comments take priority and precedence over any other group's comments?

There are also groups of so-called "scientists" who signed on to letters denying that climate change is happening. Yet most people don't feel compelled to drop everything to do a 180 because there are a lot of people who disagree with them as well.

and we don't know how many comments were positive.

They were almost certainly shellacked in the comments -- otherwise they would have made THEM ALL PUBLIC!

They are hiding their ineptitude.

They received THOUSANDS of comments including from numerous groups. Why should one group's comments take priority and precedence over any other group's comments?

There are also groups of so-called "scientists" who signed on to letters denying that climate change is happening. Yet most people don't feel compelled to drop everything to do a 180 because there are a lot of people who disagree with them as well.

Anonymous wrote:PP--thanks for posting that. I did a google of Edward Miller and found this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/29/a-tough-critique-of-common-core-on-early-childhood-education/


This sums it up. Feedback was ignored. Why?

You don't know for a fact that it was ignored. You are just assuming so. Maybe they got more feedback driving it in the direction that it went in than the one you think it should have gone in.

Just because you and a few other people think it should be different doesn't mean everyone agrees with you. Not everyone in the US agrees on whether we should have Social Security or universal healthcare either.

Anonymous wrote:Who's Edward Miller of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, when he's at home?

" It was written by Edward Miller, a writer and teacher who lives in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. He is the co-author of “Crisis in the Kindergarten: Why Children Need to Play in School,” "

Who's Edward Miller of Wellfleet, Massachusetts, when he's at home?

PP--thanks for posting that. I did a google of Edward Miller and found this:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/01/29/a-tough-critique-of-common-core-on-early-childhood-education/


This sums it up. Feedback was ignored. Why?

Found this letter in the comments section of another story site. Sure shoots down the idea that Common Core writers were actual experts on how children learn:

"I was one of the authors of the Joint Statement of Early Childhood Health and Education Professionals on the Common Core Standards, expressing grave concerns about the K-3 standards and signed by more than 400 leaders in the field. (Read it here: http://www.edweek.org/media/jo... We hand-delivered the statement to each of the people in charge of the Common Core project during the public comment period. The statement was never acknowledged and was not mentioned in the official report published by the Common Core initiative on the public reaction to the proposed standards. The addition of the words "with prompting and support," in our view, made little or no difference to the overall devastating effect of the kindergarten standards on teaching and classroom life.
Susan Pimentel did receive a bachelor's degree in early childhood education in 1974 but went on immediately to law school and never worked as a teacher or school leader. Marilyn Adams does have a background in cognitive and developmental psychology but, as far as I know, never taught young children. She has had a successful career promoting an extreme phonics-based approach to reading along with her own programs for implementing this approach, including the notorious Open Court reading and writing curriculum that was imposed on thousands of schools by the Reading First component of the No Child Left Behind Act. Reading First was later exposed as a fraud that cost billions of dollars and actually produced negative results on children's reading outcomes.
I suppose you could say that Pimentel and Adams have early education backgrounds. The fact is that neither they nor any of the other 133 members of the committees that wrote and reviewed the standards had ever been a K-3 classroom teacher.
Edward Miller
Wellfleet, Massachusetts"

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aah. Just another week of disrupted learning for the PARCC for my kid this week.

"Another week?" Your school is doing it wrong. My kid had one study hall session to go over test mechanics and then a few days with only partial-day disruption. Certainly not "weeks."

My son's school schedule is to be disrupted between the second with of April to June. Constantly shifting class schedules, missing classes some day, 3 hour blocks of the same class other days. It's a debacle.

OK. Four days. Not a week. Just like last month, except the schedule changes lasted longer due to other grade levels taking the tests. They did some practice last week and now partial days taken up by testing. And no homework. Which tell me the focus is on testing and other classes are lite so as not to overload. Disruption.