Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts

I was surprised to find that there were not nearly as many goals and standards required for the varying grade levels as I would have suspected. My experience with most efforts to standardize a curriculum or any other large body of information for instruction generally involves an exhaustive list with multiple bullet points and unachievable amounts of information to be delivered in a very short time. Based on the standards presented on the website, it would seem that the Common Core has made some effort to streamline, or perhaps generalize, these standards into a few key points. That said, however, it is likely that what is presented on the website is not indicative of every bit of the minutiae involved in ensuring that all of the various aspects of these general standards are delivered in a year long school curriculum. The handout we were given points this aspect out as well as visiting many of the common arguments against the standardization of education, most notably the tendency for these kinds of standards to not be applicable to the less dominant cultures in American society. However, at least in the first chapter of the book which the handout represents, there appears to be no suggestion for how to fix this common discrepancy. However, I think that the standards given in the CCSS are applicable to any culture and focus more on the fundamental aspects of reading, comprehending and analyzing literary and informational texts.