Common Core Initiative In Education

The goal of the Common Core State Standards is to prepare students for college and work expectations and help them compete and succeed in a global economy and society. Furthermore, this policy has shaped current educational thinking by providing established learning standards with rigorous content and application of higher knowledge through higher order thinking skills.

According to the National Education Association (2017) The common core state standards benefit all students because it provides equal access to the same curriculum as other students across the nation. The standards focus specifically on English Language Arts and Mathematics. The Common Core is designed to encompass a clear set of broad standards to prepare students for post-secondary opportunities. The standards were meant to be more challenging than current set of standards in each state and to provide clarity and consistency about what was expected of students at each grade level.

Common Core State Standards is being heard throughout the education world. Many cringe when the words are spoken and many fight to support what the words stand for. Common Core was introduced in 2009 by state leaders. Common Core State Standards were developed to prepare children for the business world or the reality after grade school. “The Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy, also known as ELA” (About the Standards, n.d.). The goals for the standards outline what students should know before leaving his or her current grade level. “The standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life, regardless of where they live” (About the Standards, n.d.). This is an ambitious goal, but with much support can be accomplished. According to Common Core State Standards Initiative (n.d.) The Common Core has been adopted by forty-two states already and is accompanied by District of Columbia and Department of Defense Education Activity. Common Core was developed to improve the academics in society’s schools. Academics in the past years have not been successful and the United States has fallen behind international education. “One root cause has been an uneven patchwork of academic standards that vary from state to state and do not agree on what students should know and be able to do at each

Thesis: The implementation of Common Core in American schools is costing millions of American tax dollars that supply an education policy that fails to be well rounded and fully representative of the student population in the 21st century; damaging the current and future framework of the U.S. education system.

Common Core Standards were designed to have all of the states in the United States learning the same things at the same ages so that no matter where a student is they wouldn’t have to learn things more than once or not at all if they move. There is much debate about common core standards. If nothing changes in the education system time and energy that could be put into bettering the education system will continue to be spent on debating the implementation of common core standards. Everyone from teachers to politicians have diverse and changing views on the recently implemented standards but everyone can agree that it is an issue that needs to be solved. Even those who wrote the standards are now coming out with their concerns with the standards.

The collection of articles talked about how the government wants Common Core and the debate over the Common Core. One of the authors named Lindsey Burke (2015) talked about how the government wants a “national curriculum” to establish a standard education. The articles discussed how the Common Core is causing several problems and encourage competition . Some of the problems are how Common Core takes away rights from parents to decide what best for their children. The government seems to want Common Core for everyone to follow the system but government does not think of the consequence in a smaller level. The articles talked about the negative impacts of Common Core such as taking control of our own education. I think Common

The idea behind Common Core is simple: uphold clear parameters as to what concepts students need to understand for their grade-level nationally. It seems like a no-brainer. Every student, no matter his or her background or geographic location, is entitled to the same education, and expected to know the same things by the time they graduate. In this paper I will argue that Common Core standards are necessary in today’s educational system.

America has fallen behind many other countries academically. To fix this, the national educational standards of Common Core were put into place. It created a system of academic benchmarks for reading and math, which will equalize test scores across all states while simultaneously raising national scores. However, this system has not yet achieved what it set out to do. Common Core has not had a significant positive impact on students' learning.

In the past ten years, the Common Core Curriculum has become the driving force in American students education. Adapted in 2010 through the No Child Left Behind Act, it began with vigorous testing that failed to raise educational performance. In order to improve the act, the federal government then created an entire standard based curriculum. This educational initiative became further known as Common Core, which is currently being implemented in every public school across America. Common Core details what kindergarteners through twelfth graders are required to know at the end of each grade in the subjects of math and language arts. Although this initiative is seen by the government as a way to improve and standardize education, a major problem seen by many citizens is that it abolishes creativity and individual thinking in schools. The Common Core Curriculum can be better satisfied by allowing schools the option of whether or not to utilize the initiative, and by completing the standards through state testing.

The common core standards were designed to establish a national curriculum and a national assessment system, where students across the nation have the same expectations and learning outcomes (Noll, 2014). There has been heated debate over whether these standards will improve education. Some say the standards will increase rigor and consistency, while others say that they lack flexibility in favor of continuity (Noll, 2014). Some say common core will more consistently prepare learners for college and careers, while others say the standards dismiss the importance of teacher training that will be necessary if our schools are to make this enormous change (Noll, 2014). So, will this change in curriculum standards and assessment be what our nation 's students need to succeed?

Common core has been a massive issue among schools all over the country for a long period of time. It has put teachers under extreme pressure to prepare students to pass the test, causing them to become less individualized. According to several different studies, there is no proof the common core standards are working. Common core should be banned from every school, because it discourages teachers from being creative, delays critical thinking, and hurts students who struggle in school. First of all, common core discourages teachers from being creative.

Common Core promotes that idealistic mindset in which the bar is lowered so that every student can succeed. According to the video explanation on their website, Common Core shows that teachers will teach a child the basics so that they can succeed like “how counting to 100 will lead to understanding the value of money to having a budget.” The goal of common core is to produce students who will be able to

Some support the Common Core because it promotes a higher level of comprehension skills and independent learning. Lucy Calkins (2012) mentioned that the Common Core should help students read beyond the surface level, and placed the emphasis on a student’s ability to master the academic standards (p. 1). It helps prepare students for the real-world by understanding the nuances of the text and emphasizing on the students’ task on learning the standards and applying them in the real world.

The idea behind the Common Core standards is simple: uphold clear parameters as to what concepts students need to understand for their grade-level nationally. It seems like a no-brainer. Every student, no matter his or her background or geographic location, is entitled to the same education, and is expected to know the same things by the time they graduate. In this paper I will argue that Common Core standards are necessary in today’s education system.

This paper will attempt to define the Common Core and what it entails in regards to educators, students and parents. All children deserve a quality education in America. The core requirements for each state are for children to meet the outlined standards of reading, writing and math. In respects to the Common Core, this paper will briefly discuss its background, how it has come to exist in the context of education reform and the controversies surrounding these standards. Finally, giving an evaluation of the assets, limits, and problems associated with the Common Core.