Are Common Core Standards More Focused?

For anyone stumbling onto this blog, I am currently working on an analysis of the Common Core advocates that the old standards were too broad and not focused.  I will put my fnding up here as I get them and update this page as I go.  For starters, just initially in looking numerically at the standards, it appears that CCSS advocates are again overstating the case. For example, in Oregon I have counted the number of standards at each Grade Level in the "old" Standards and compared those figures to the number of CCSS at each level.  In each case, there are more CCSS standards than old Oregon standards.  And again, initially just looking, the old standards are more concise than the Common Core.  I will provide examples.  For now here are the counts:

Will Common Core Standards Improve Education?

Advocates for the Common Core and Smarter Balanced educational initiatives are right to be concerned that the parent Opt Out movement could influence the policy’s chances for success.  On the other hand, parents have warrant to be concerned about educational policies that are as consequential, on the one hand, and poorly supported by research, on the other.  As a parent, I have decided to opt my children out of SBAC testing, both because I feel the tests are harmful to them individually, but in the broader picture, harmful to education as a whole.  As a doctoral student in educational leadership, I belatedly started to review the foundational research underlying Common Core/SBAC and have been startled to find that wherever I dig, I find huge holes in the claims made by Common Core proponents.