Imagine there being a type of learning environment that your teachers, and parents have no say on what the children are learning. The purpose of education is supposed to be to prepare us kids to become workers when we grow up. Imagine a world full of stress and depression. We kids from are feeling a huge load of stress when we are supposed to be having a free mind during our childhood. Common core is the cause of all of this. Common core is a state standard that has to be met by all children from Kindergarten to twelfth grade. There have been a lots of tests that proved how much stress this system has caused. Common core deserves to be abolished. Firstly common core is destructing the main point of education. Next, people have taken tests, …show more content…
Common Core is a so called college preparatory education level. There is no evidence about this. No tests have proven this. However, tests have proven that common core leads to stress. According to Bascom, James, 9 reasons why Common Core is bad for education, 20, Jan 2016, tfpstudentaction.org , Common Core was never evaluated or peer reviewed by teachers or education specialists, nor did parents have any say in their development or implementation.”Common Core is clearly being a harm to the education of children. If parents and teachers don’t even know about the standards of common core, how bad can it be? It is like an essay or story that hasn’t been proofread. That is a lot worse than something proofread. That too, the teachers have experience of teaching, so them proofreading would be very helpful. Also the parents knowing about it is important because our parents deserve to know how we are being thought. They deserve to have some control over our education, because they are the ones sending us to school. The people who made these stupid standards is the government. They are controlling how our education is, while our parents and teachers say nothing. They don’t even get to know what is going on. This shows how bad this education …show more content…
In lots of people’s point of view Common Core is there to “improve the State’s Standard Education Level”, but it hasn’t. “The Common Core is supposed to be improving state standards in education, but its bigger effect has been a comprehensive dumbing down of American education at every level, from kindergarten through graduate school,” Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, said in an interview with CNSNews.com. “The major criticism coming from the scholars is that it’s lowered standards in both math and English language arts, the two parts of the K-12 curriculum that the Common Core covers,” Wood told CNSNews.com. Hollingsworth Barbara, Author on Common Core: A Comprehensive Dumbing Down of American Education at Every Level 17, Nov 2016. Wood is saying that the point of Common Core is supposed to be to improve the State’s Education Level, but he explains how a lot of people just complain that it doesn’t help at all. He is telling how it is just stressing people’s lives, and making their education harder. First, what does a Comprehensive Dumbing Down mean? In this case, it means that Common Core our intelligence
Even with all the cons associated with the Common Core Standards, I think the new Common
In the article, “Quarrel over Common Core: A Pennsylvania Primer” by Randy Kraft (2014), Common Core and the controversy surrounding it are discussed heavily. Kraft’s thesis is to inform the audience about Common Core and explain, impartially, the arguments for and against it. In 2010, Pennsylvania took on the Common Core Standards. These standards were put in place to ensure that students of Pennsylvania were on the same academic level by graduation, and enable them to be better equipped to compete in a global marketplace (p. 1).
Many school districts and teachers have openly stated they do not agree with the Common Core standards and wish they did not have to implement them, but to get the funding the school needs they do. With curriculum changes currently happening all around the country, wherever the reader is have heard about the upcoming changes and have formed their own opinion on it. This is the closest anyone could get to the Colorado situation without actually being there. Common Core is such a controversial topic that many people think over reaches the federal governments grasp on education (CBS, 2014, para. 22). The states hold the power of education, which is why, up until now in history, there have been no national standards.
Explanation: This important because the backers of CCSS believe if that the general public could understand exactly what the standards are, there might be more support for them. Only seventeen percent of Americans who supported Common Core and the remainder was either confused or thought it was an umbrella for many topics other than education (Simon) This all connects back to my argument that the debate has spun out of control fueled by both sides, with the public stuck in the middle trying to grasp some understanding of CCSS. Analysis to compare of what is driving the resistance Politics, money, power
Sawchuk, S. (2012). Many Teachers Not Ready for the Common Core. Education Digest, 16-22. http://proxy.ashland.edu:2048/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=eft&AN=82981829&site=ehost-live Beginning this research I stumbled on this article which discusses the successful implementation of the Common Core Standards.
When students could be learning meaningful information, teachers are using up that time and giving them tests and exams. Although, we want to be blaming teachers, states and schools are supposed to give out mandatory tests. Who is to blame? According to washington article post, Valerie Strauss, says “The average student in America’s big-city public schools takes some 112 mandatory standardized tests between pre-kindergarten and the end of 12th grade — an average of about eight a year, the study says. ” The state is to blame.
With over one million signatures and comments from parents against the program, there has been little progress with the disputes they have made. Some claim that education should be left entirely out of the hands of the government, with little to no interference in how classrooms are run or taught. The belief that the education of a child is best left in the hands of those closest are the best to make the decisions, rather than federal acts. The Common Core is a substandard arrangement of benchmarks which negatively affect instructor assessments, school responsibility measures, instructional procedures, educational modules, subsidizing, intercessions for low-performing schools, and school tests
Our current period in education is full of great change and opportunity. Students, teachers, and principals are being challenged to think, learn, and apply in different ways. The Common Core State Standards and technology are the main reasons this time period is so important. These two things are creating, "great opportunities within themselves" (Fullan, p.12, 2014) and at the same time are very challenging because they have "unclear implications for implementation" (Fullan, p.12, 2014). Both Common Core State Standards and technology are very complex and create an exciting time in learning across the educational system however, make it challenging for educators in the U.S. to be effective and implement in a way that maximizes learning.
Introduction States love to have has much control over every aspect of government. Many states like Missouri were happy to join the ranks of states implementing the Common Core State Standards because it makes sense in terms of unifying standards for all states so all students will have the necessary skills needed to become successful in college career and life. States like Missouri are beginning to have second thoughts about the standards because they argue that the standards restrict the state’s control over educating children, but they seem to forget the rationale for original implantation which is to have all of the involved states working under the same set of standards in an effort to prepare all students for life after high school. The Rigor the Common Core State Standards Should be Embraced
Why Common Core Standards Should Be More Common Why would students not want to be on a level playing field in their education? Why would they not want to be able to move seamlessly between states? These opportunities are given to students by Common Core. Although many opponents may say that these standards are a barrier of creativity, the Common Core Standards being accepted in all fifty states would help America, because it would have teachers across state borders instructing similar lesson plans, it would decrease the achievement gap, and it would better prepare students for college and the workforce by teaching them the needed materials for their futures.
Nevertheless, schools are facing hard times and taking the loss right where it hurts, the pocketbook. Many states signed up for the new curriculum within only two months, which was not nearly long enough to make sure that the new learning standard was fit for them. By signing up, these states agreed to buy tests and upgrade their technology to administer the tests. All of this added up to thirty dollars per student, more than what half the states can afford. “Common Core Causes Collateral Damage” reveals, “Just last month, Maryland announced it would need $100 million to get schools up to speed to administer the tests”(McShane, 2).
The challenge for schools across the state and nation is how to instruct students to reach the skill levels demanded in the Common Core State Standards. The Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (CCSI). The design of the standards is to emphasize the rigorous content and practices required for in-depth of knowledge, higher order thinking, and application at each grade level. Even with the existing controversy, the standards in Common Core include what students should know in English and math for success in college and career. The Common Core State Standards address the achievement gap by ensuring students leave school with the ability to apply and articulate conceptual understanding that reinforces content skills.
The United States Common Core State Standards for Education The Common Core State Standards is a controversial subject among educators, parents and general public. What most people do not realize is state standards have been around since the 1900’S, and every state has had their own standards in the early 2000’s. Each state standard has levels or benchmarks, which state what the student should be proficient in per grade level. Most of these standards are in place for third grade through high school.
Common Core was implemented to improve the quality of education in California, but overall students all over California have been negatively affected by this by testing low in exams. Also not only has it affected students but as well as parents and teachers. Common core is making students learn the same exact way and could probably hurt students’ creativity and learning. Parents also who want to help their kids with their homework can't know because of how different the system compared to what they were taught. And ultimately it has been worst for teachers because they have been limited to what they can teach now and maybe not the way they want to.
Recently, the Common Core State Standards were developed and kids were going to be tested more than ever. However, all of this education reform has been a failure because our testing scores have not improved, the testing makes children suffer, and it doesn’t improve how teachers teach. Education reforms has had little effect on our testing scores. The average score for a 17 year old student doing a reading test in the beginning of school is 285 and over 40