Thanks, PP. These don't seem problematic to me. By the end of the kindergarten, I think that a five/six-year-old should be able, with prompting and support, to say something like, "The author says that we should eat vegetables because they are good for us." or "This book has pictures, and that book has drawings."

(Why would kindergarteners be reading board books?)

Because they are five! The standards should not require K students to read. Fine if they are, but it should not be the standard.

Anonymous wrote:Not PP, but perhaps one of these is the standard referred to. Not exact, but close.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.8
With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.9
With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

Thanks, PP. These don't seem problematic to me. By the end of the kindergarten, I think that a five/six-year-old should be able, with prompting and support, to say something like, "The author says that we should eat vegetables because they are good for us." or "This book has pictures, and that book has drawings."

(Why would kindergarteners be reading board books?)

Not PP, but perhaps one of these is the standard referred to. Not exact, but close.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.8
With prompting and support, identify the reasons an author gives to support points in a text.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RI.K.9
With prompting and support, identify basic similarities in and differences between two texts on the same topic (e.g., in illustrations, descriptions, or procedures).

Anonymous wrote:Asking kindergarteners to cite evidence from the text of their board books to back up their claims is developmentally inappropriate and a good way to turn kids off of reading.

Which kindergarten standard are you referring to, specifically? As far as I know -- and I just checked again to make sure -- there is no Common Core standard that asks kindergarteners to do that.

Anonymous wrote:Asking kindergarteners to cite evidence from the text of their board books to back up their claims is developmentally inappropriate and a good way to turn kids off of reading.

Ppppfffppfttt...

Hell, even Ted Cruz could manage to point things out in a board book, so surely a Kindergartner could...

HERE'S THOSE GREEN EGGS AND HAM!



Now, please stop insulting our intelligence!

Asking kindergarteners to cite evidence from the text of their board books to back up their claims is developmentally inappropriate and a good way to turn kids off of reading.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Basic education principle: start with the known (where the child is) and guide to the unknown (what he needs to learn)

Common Core: decide what a college student needs to know and work backwards.

No. It's Common Core: decide what skills a college student needs to know and start forcing students from kindergarten on up to use those skills now, no matter how wildly developmentally inappropriate.

Again, mega-eyerolls to the "wildly developmentally inappropriate" commentary given we already saw that some of you think it takes more than a year and a half for the typical kid who knows how to count to 10 to get to 20...

The hyperbole around here is ridiculous and just keeps demonstrating to the rest of us that you don't know what you're talking about.

Anonymous wrote:Basic education principle: start with the known (where the child is) and guide to the unknown (what he needs to learn)

Common Core: decide what a college student needs to know and work backwards.

No. It's Common Core: decide what skills a college student needs to know and start forcing students from kindergarten on up to use those skills now, no matter how wildly developmentally inappropriate.

Anonymous wrote:http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/28_02/28_02_karp.shtml

Pretty good explanation of the problems.

Thank you for posting this. Very helpful for understanding the background and issues.

Anonymous wrote:

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/pearson-education-115026.html

Not just money, but influence on education. This really smells.

Money and influence on education? Yes, it sure does smell: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/01/common-core-conservatives-education-101796.html

National advocacy groups powered by the Koch brothers and other conservative megadonors have found a new cause ripe with political promise: the fight to bring down the Common Core academic standards.

The groups are stoking populist anger over the standards — then working to channel that energy into a bold campaign to undercut public schools, weaken teachers unions and push the federal government out of education policy.

http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/pearson-education-115026.html

Not just money, but influence on education. This really smells.

Anonymous wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/common-core-tests_b_6170832.html
More explanation about how it all came together. From that conservative bastion, The Huffington Post.

Actually, from some guy named Alan Singer, a "social studies educator at Hofstra University". What makes him an authority?

Anonymous wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/cuomo-common-core-and-pearson_b_1293465.html

Pearson is also in politics. Go Common Core!

I wonder who puts more money into politics, Pearson or the Koch brothers.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alan-singer/common-core-tests_b_6170832.html
More explanation about how it all came together. From that conservative bastion, The Huffington Post.

What company *ISN'T* in politics these days?

Citizens United and other recent actions saw to that.