Review : School And The Education System

New York City consists of five boroughs, Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, and Staten Island. The borough that I reside in is Brooklyn. Brooklyn has approximately 2.592 million people inhabiting this district and approximately 23.4 percent of individuals who reside in Brooklyn, NY come from a low-income household or in other words come from poverty. With catholic and private schools being expensive, people have to rely on the education system to provide their children with a good education. In this paper I will be discussing the public school education system ranging solely up to high school in Brooklyn New York and giving a general idea of the New York education system as well.

Throughout the history of education, several “fads” have made their way in and out of the schools. From whole language to phonics to No Child Left Behind, educators have modified their practices to fit with new curriculum and government mandates. Many teachers describe the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) as “just another fad.” However, I believe that this is not the case.

All citizens go through the kindergarten, all the way to their senior year. Hall, Hutchison and White (2015) report that teachers having less experience in the classroom have less acquaintance with the standards than those with more. Thus, there is the need for initiating pre-service teacher education programs in aide of the common core state standard in order to put more emphasis on the standard and generally in learning. At every level, the American education system allows students to be assessed using different evaluations on Science, Mathematics and English Language arts (Barnett and Fay, 2013). Nevertheless, a number of schools in the United States of America have upgraded their state standards and embraced the Common Core State Standard in the recent past. This development has given the entire world a platform for standardizing tests for various subjects such as reading skills, writing, and

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

Rethinking the common core standards. The common core is hailed as “the next big thing” in school reform, but is it “the next big thing? The reform was implemented to resurrect a failing school system, brought on by “No Child Left Behind” once the reform was put into action it was supposed to make some extensive improvements; however, this change brought about some unsuspected

In 2009, many states adopted a new schooling standard called the Common Core State Standards. These are a set of popular K-12 standards in English Language Arts and Mathematics with future standards in other subjects like Social Studies. They were created for the “poor quality of content” (Polikoff) standards and to ensure that every student will learn the same things at the same pace. Researchers claim that the standards are better than the current state standards, raising the expectations of performance for students. Although Common Core is supposed to be higher quality, there are many challenges it would face such as technology upgrades, content coverage, computer scoring, etc. Before the Common Core State Standards, each state set its own standards similar to one another. With Common Core Standards, every state will have the same standards to base student performance off of. Another reason these new standards were put into place is to ensure that America will be able to

Voices across the country are raising concerns about the new Common Core State Standards. But if you listen carefully to the conversations, the main concern is not about the standards, themselves, but about the consequences of high-stakes tests attached to the standards. And those concerns are well-founded. Trying to implement goals for deeper learning through an outdated testing model tied to a long list of punishments for children, educators, and schools is like pouring new wine into old bottles. It will certainly turn sour. The Common Core, for those of you unaware, is a set of “standards”, skills and requirements children need to understand by the end of the school year. Here 's the thing, The Common Core standards do not specify the

Many reforms have been made. Education is always changing and therefore, curriculum must change too. The Common Core State Standards were put into place to ensure students could compete on a global level and have the skills necessary from higher education and the work force. The idea of giving each state the same set of building block learning standards is a good one. However, the implementation in most states are lacking or inexistent. In order for the CCSS to reach it’s potential, teachers need training in learning how to implement the new standards into their classrooms. This takes time and money. Are states willing to invest in the future of America? Also, the CCSS needs to invest more in under privileged schools. Without the investment, these schools will crumble under the new rigorous standards and standard-based assessments. Just by creating nation wide standards, the U.S. education system will not be miraculously restored. It will take time to make America on top once again in education. The Common Core State Standards are a necessary step in the right direction to building academically brilliant K-12 students of the United States education system that have collegiate and workforce ready

The Common Core Standards were created in 2010 as an ideal system to help the students of the United States compete with top competitors worldwide. Teachers, standard experts, and other countries studied learning styles internationally to create a system that is supposed to fill the gap in curriculum and the “hole that is a mile wide and only an inch deep” the old system has created (“Myths”). On this new system, state standards will be raised to the highest in 20 years; therefore, no state will have a mediocre curriculum. This means all states will be synchronized to one another, and as Dwyer says, “Parents should know where their child will be from womb to tomb (Nelson).”

The new standards not only bring the lower states up, but those with the highest expectations for their students have to bring their schooling to the next level with Common Core in place. This provides the assurance

When the grades go up the standards will be more complex with what they want the students to learn and know at that grade level. Some standards are the same with few words changed in the next grade level standard. For example, between first and second grade R.L.1.10 and R.L.2.10 are very different, R.L.2.10 goes in to way more detail on what they are supposed to do. Second graders should be able to read and comprehend literature on their own where first graders will need prompting and support. Where as R.L.2.10 and R.L.3.10 are almost the same except for a few words. The standard sequence from one grade to the next make sense they follow along with what they were taught the year before just with more complex detail. I believe students will be able to move from one grade level standard to the next, there are changes but they go off what they had been taught the year before. I do not think there will be gaps in their learning unless they are coming from out of state that do not have similar standards to Iowa’s. I do wonder how they change standards without confusing students with what they were already taught the previous year. How does the state change the standards without overlap with another grade

The group I had for this assignment was Rethinking Schools. Rethinking Schools opposes the common Core in all aspects. Rethinking Schools does not agree with how the Common Core was created or how it is being implemented. Rethinking Schools believes that the Common Core standards are not state standards. They believe they are standards at the national level. It is proven to be federal standards, because of the money incentive states could receive for adopting the standards. They believe that teachers are not prepared to teach it, and that there are not the resources available that are needed for it to be taught. Rethinking Schools also believes that it should not only cover the two subjects of language arts and math. Many times the Common Core is compared to NCLB when the organization says there are too many standardized tests being implemented. A quote from the group says, “The entire country just finished a decade-long experiment in

Currently in the U.S education system, I can only think of one policy/practice/program that is similar to the Cardinal Principles outline. In many high schools around the country there are CTE courses and teachers that students can participate in. CTE (Career and Technical Education) are taught in many areas that are found in the professional world from business management to technology to arts to legal studies. To be a certified teacher in any of these areas, one has to have a degree/certain amount of credits in that CTE topic or a set amount of years of real world professional experience working in that field. CTE courses and curriculum is very aligned to what the Cardinal Principals authors had in mind with the structure of a comprehensive high school. This high school utopia that allows students to venture in to many different areas outside of the core subjects was what the Cardinal Principals authors seemed to believe was the answer to stronger educational outcomes and members of society.

On June 16, 2012, the state of Wyoming adopted the Common Core Standards with the idea that they would be fully implemented by the 2014-2015 school year. With the standards having to be implemented within less than a year, students switched learning styles in my district,

The education system has been a controversial issue among educators. Requirements of school do not let student choose what they want to study for their future. It’s a big issue to force student study specific curriculums, which don’t help them improve, and what they like to create something. Educators choose a general system for education to all students which based on general knowledge. Intelligent or genius students have to be in that system of education, which doesn’t let them improve their creativity. Educators attempt to change that system to make it better, but their changing was not that great to be an example for the world. Also, did that change qualify education system to compete other systems or not? In some examples and