Developmental+Inappropriateness

// Meme found on Facebook, Jul. 2014. //

media type="custom" key="23820944" //**Dr. Megan Koschnick** discusses the inappropriateness of the Common // //Core Standards for K-3 at the Common Core Conference held at Notre // //Dame on Sept. 2013. //

media type="custom" key="25814596" Spoiler alert: No. No, they are not, when judged by Piaget's theory. //Published to YouTube on Mar. 2014.//
 * Donita Brown, "Are Common Core Standards Developmentally Appropriate?"**

http://deyproject.org/2014/05/01/6-reasons-to-reject-the-common-core-state-standards-for-k-grade-3/
 * Editors of DEY, "Six Reasons** **to Reject the Common Core State Standards for K- Grade 3," //Defending the Early Years// site,** **May 2014.**

http://educationroundtable.org/2014/03/16/is-the-common-core-developmentally-appropriate/
 * Princeton Community TV, "Is the Common Core Developmentally Appropriate?" //Education Roundtable program blog,// Mar. 2014.**

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 * Rachel Monahan, "Kindergarten gets tough as kids are forced to bubble in multiple choice tests," //New York Daily News,// Oct. 2013. **

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 * Dr. Joseph Ricciotti, "How CCSS Ruins Kindergarten,"** **//Connecticut Post// (via dianeravitch. net), Oct. 2013. **

As the subtitle states, " Children today are cossetted and pressured in equal measure. Without the freedom to play they will never truly grow up." http://www.aeonmagazine.com/being-human/children-today-are-suffering-a-severe-deficit-of-play/
 * Peter Gray, "The Play Deficit," //Aeon Magazine,// Sept 2013. **

http://reclaimreform.com/2014/07/07/act-for-kindergarteners-redefining-childhood-and-monetizing-children/
 * Ken Previti, "ACT for Kindergartners: Redefining Childhood and Monetizing Children," //Reclaim Reform// blog, Jul. 2014.**

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2013/11/09/why-young-kids-are-struggling-with-common-core-math/
 * Carol Burris and John Murphy, "Why Young Kids Are Struggling with Common Core Math," Valerie Strauss' "Answer Sheet" in the //Washington Post,// Nov. 2013.**

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/03/23/kindergarten-teacher-my-job-is-now-about-tests-and-data-not-children-i-quit/
 * Susan Sluyter, "****Kindergarten teacher: My job is now about tests and data — not children. I quit.****" Valerie Strauss' "Answer Sheet" in the //Washington Post,// Mar. 2014.**

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 * Michelle Gunderson, an ECE from Chicago, speaks out against Common Core** //at AFT's Convention, Jul. 2014.//