Numerous advocacy organizations that focus on early childhood are concerned about the content and implementation of the Common Core Standards. Describe four of these concerns

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What will be an ideal response?

Answer 1

Common Core Standards concerns include:
a . Expectations relating to young children (5-6 years of age).
b. Standards focus on two curriculum areas that do not match early childhood guidelines that focus on all development.
c. Developmentally appropriate stimulation – opportunity to learn through plans and in a variety of areas of developmental domains: social and emotional development, approaches to learning, cognitive development, language and literacy and physical development.
c. Standards are not developmentally appropriate for younger children because they were written based on expectations for high school graduation and backtracked to the younger grades.
e. May lead to unrealistic expectations for kindergarten and primary-age children, will lead to unwarranted pressure for academic achievement and will move early education further away from hands-on experiential learning that is most effective for young children.