Of more than ninety specific Common Core kindergarten standards in literacy and math, the report takes issue with exactly one, which says that kindergarteners should be able to «[r] ead emergent - reader texts with purpose and understanding.» (educationnext.org)
However, that unsuitable kindergarten standard on decomposing numbers that I shared in this letter is exactly the same as the Florida standard, MAFS.K.NBT. (hechingerreport.org)
The authors of Little to Gain would do early - childhood education a considerable service if instead they pushed aggressively for teacher education and professional development that enabled more teachers to meet Common Core benchmarks with the teaching techniques they favor, not demand that we «withdraw kindergarten standards from the Common Core so that they can be rethought along developmental lines.» (educationnext.org)