Common Core Failure

All states have a course standard to follow to set goals for teaching and learning (West, 2018). Teachers use these standards as a guide within their classroom to provide the best learning for their students. Today there is a huge debate between Common Core Standards and the Alabama College and Career Readiness Standards. These two standards are highly debated and investigated amongst teachers, government officials, and parents to understand which standards will enhance student’s academic knowledge. Some state political boards do not agree with the new adoption if the Common Core Standards. After researching both standards and gaining my own opinion, I think to adopt the new Common Core Standards is a positive thing for our school systems. Even though it has some negative like difficult transition for students, standards are vague, and unequal access to technology in the classroom and at home (Meador, 2017). Even with all the cons associated with the Common Core Standards, I think the new Common

The state of Texas has been in a constant struggle within itself over just how to evaluate education, and standardized testing in Texas has been a major influencer in terms of the state’s standards for over thirty years. Though these methods of testing have been utilized for decades, resentment to the tests have been continuously rising among educators, parents, and students, but not everyone agrees. Despite government officials trying to quell these protests with changes to administration, and the way the test itself is formatted and formulated, there seems to have been little to no improvement made and those opposing the tests have started calling for an end to all standardized testing. For one to truly understand this ongoing struggle, one must first look at standardized testing’s beginning, then how government today is trying to fix the broken system, and finally consider the opinions of notable figures in the testing world.

Goal: When reading a 5th grade passage and a word is unknown, Scott will be able to use the context clues, word roots, prefixes, suffixes and inflectional ending within a passage for 3 out of 4 trials.

An unpleasant learning experience was taking an algebra class online and needing to have a tutor. I did not like math when I was in high school; however, I needed a math class to obtain my bachelor degree and could do a face-to-face class. It was difficult for me to grasp the concepts used to solve the equations and the tutor tried simplify the processes so I could complete the equations. The problem with this class was I could not make any connections with what I was supposed to learn and other math classes. I was able to pass the class with the help of the tutor; however, I did not retain all of the concepts needed to solve the difficult equations. I was able to retain enough information

Standard 3.OA.1:  Interpret products of whole numbers, e.g., interpret 5 × 7 as the total number of objects in 5 groups of 7 objects each. For example, describe a context in which a total number of objects can be expressed as 5 × 7. Children start working with equal groups as a whole instead of counting it individual objects. Students start understanding that are able to group number is according to get a product. Students can solve duplication by understand the relationship between the two number. In third grade it is the first time in which they are introduced to the ideas of group that represented by multiplication. They are able to solve the problem without given information by grouping. Standard 3.OA.3:  Use multiplication and division

#include #include void main(){ int n,i=0,k,digit; char * ptr[100]; printf("Enter any integer: "); scanf("%d",&n); while(n){ digit = n %10; n = n /10; switch(digit){ case 0: ptr[i++] = "zero"; break; case 1: ptr[i++] = "one"; break; case 2: ptr[i++] = "two"; break; case 3: ptr[i++] = "three"; break; case 4: ptr[i++] = "four"; break; case 5: ptr[i++] = "five"; break; case 6: ptr[i++] = "six"; break; case 7: ptr[i++] = "seven"; break; case 8: ptr[i++] = "eight"; break; case 9: ptr[i++] = "nine"; break; } } for(k=i-1;k>=0;k--){ printf("%s ",ptr[k]);

Both America’s political left and right vigorously tout their solution is the only one and education is a hotbed because it is an easy target. Evidence: Activists and politicos try and harness the debate from any angle that would put their point of view ahead of their rival. Common Core in the mainstream right media is portrayed as an evil creation by the left. Generally it has nothing to do with the standards themselves, but is likely to be any additional hot point that can be born under the name Common Core (Simon). 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.

America is not the country it use to be, no more are the days of simplicity. In recent years, Obama has changed many different aspects of this country. In fact, Obama has had an impact on health care, education, and war in both negative and positive ways.

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.

Charles Baxter’s “Gryphon” provides an interesting look at standardized education and the way society views those who deviate from it. Baxter shows this through how the narrator Tommy views his new substitute, Miss Ferenczi. The character Miss Ferenczi tries to revolt against the clinical and strict standards of society and positively impact the morality and ethicality of herself, Tommy, and the fourth graders.

Education reform is legislation to improve the quality of education in the United States. Once, grades were the most important achievement for students. However, politicians and the public were concerned that our standardized test scores were not as good as those of other countries. Therefore, state and national governments started making laws to make school more challenging and to test kids more. One of those laws was “No Child Left Behind”. 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.

I think Common Core Standard is a tolerable curriculum. It has many benefits such as preparing students for a competitive global economy, providing national continuity in education, and reflect aspirations for student achievement and an understanding of the realities of the classroom. But not all things are flawless. Common Core Standards does have a few down sides such as not guarantee improvements in testing on the global scale and it is a program pushed by the government, which you either adopt the program or you get no money for the schools. According to an article online called “The Case against Common Core” states that the main issue with this curriculum is that this is basically “one size fits all” approach to education. I even find this a bit appalling considering that I was always told that every child learns differently. Therefore, having a standard that is copyrighted and makes no changes does not give students the ability to learn at their own way. Another big issue that I read was the CCS for math. The new lingo for math is estimation. The right answer is no longer the correct answer and that estimating the answer is the way to go. I feel like this would be extremely hard for parents to help their children with homework because the parents don’t know how to solve math problems like

The child I interviewed is a six years old boy by the name of Tyrese, and he is currently in the first grade. Tyrese first began school in kindergarten, he has no prior formal schooling; however, his mother tried to teach him the basics at home. Being that she is an early educator, she was always seeking information on how she can assist Tyrese at home in order to prepare him for kindergarten. Tyrese is an active, smart and persistent child and he always demonstrated a positive approach to learning. It came as no surprise to me when I told him that I was coming to his house to have complete some math problems, he was ecstatic.

“Education is primarily a State and local responsibility in the United States.” ~ (U.S department of Education.) Common Core is a federal education system in the Untied States. It tries to better the education system by treating all students the same, however this cookie cutter de-individualizes students in attempt to create mindless clones as a result of the education system. Why is it a system, which is supposed to be run by the state, is now run by the federal government? Randy Bish the cartoonist has this to say about his cartoon: “Common Core makes the students turn out the exact same.”(Bish as quoted in Cashiola) Bish uses the familiar shape of a cookie cutter to get his message across.

Standardized testing has become one of the most popular types of testing in U.S. public schools to date. Students take numerous standardized tests throughout their childhood schooling. (Studies show that a typical student takes an average of 112 mandated standardized tests between Pre-K and 12th grade.) While standardized testing is one of the main procedures that Universities use to judge incoming students, it is not proven to be the most effective way to convey a student’s actual intelligence level. The U.S. should not focus so heavily on standardized testing because it is not a complete accurate measurement of a student’s intelligence.