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    The Common Core State Standards are a state attempt to create strong educational standards. The standard are created to ensure that students in the country are learning and grasping the information that are given in the classrooms for them to succeed academically. The Common Core plan included governors and education commissioners form forty-eight states and the District of Columbia. They wanted to make sure the standards are relevant, logical and sequential. For content all subjects must have critical-thinking

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    Genary Gomez                                                                    Mr. Scheiner English Period #4                                                                   11/21/13 Argumentative Essay on Common Core “Without Common Core we (America) are not where we want or need to be.” The New York Times reported this in August, 2013. Currently, every state sets its own curriculum for its schools. The result is that the United States ranks “25th in math, 17th in science, and 14th in

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    Why is Common Core necessary? Common Core is needed to stabilize education. Through the implementation of Common Core, every child will learn the same thing at the same time. Education throughout the country would be equal and no child would truly be left behind. The theory of Common Core is good, but the implementation so far has not been. Creating an unified teaching curriculum is a great idea for any child who would be moving across the country, or even to another state, mid-school year;

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    Forty-two states, along with the District of Columbia have adopted Common Core State Standards. These standards were created to focus only on English and Mathematics. An effect of states adopting Common Core State Standards is that all other subjects taught in school were emphasized less. History, Science, and many other subjects are no longer stressed; therefore students are limited to being proficient in only two subjects. The Common Core deprives students’ ability to be skilled in multiple areas. These

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    should put common core into effect. Before common core, the U.S was really behind in education. Common core can really help you in your future. Common core actually should be done in every school. Common core helps teachers and students follow a set of rulers to follow and learn. Also common core helps kids know how the SAT’s will be like. The state tests are hard and for the next test, it makes you want to do better on it next year because most people like challenges. Also, common core helps kids

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    Common Core test are a set of high quality academic standard in mathematics and English language arts/literacy. These learning goals outline what students should know and can do at the end of each grade. Common Core State Standards are not appropriate for young children. Common core is inappropriate for young children; it does not help them learn it making it hard to learn because of all the thing that have to be done with common core. Common core came together because of the education leader in

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    [The unit’s standards all come directly from the ELA Common Core standards of first grade expectations. The ELA Common Core standard mandates what the students will be doing and learning. Each lesson’s learning objective is derived from the ELA Common Core standard. The learning experiences’ purpose also aligns with the learning objectives so students can meet the objective. The standards and learning objectives for my learning segment support children’s active and multimodal learning and language

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    Common Core Math Imagine being given a math problem, such as, 7+7. Most people would do simple mental math to get the solution fourteen. However, in American education millions of kids are required to fathom these problems with a concept known as “number bonds,” and restricting children to one way of solving is profoundly hampering innovativeness in American children (Garelick). Not only has this change in education caused anxiety in children of all ages, but also in their parents who struggle in

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    Common Core Math Problem

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    Common Core Math Imagine being given a math problem, such as, 7+7. Most people would do simple mental math to get the answer fourteen. But in American education millions of kids are forced to solve these problems with a concept called “number bonds,” and being restricted to one way of solving is greatly reducing creativity in American kids. Not only has this change in education caused stress in children of all ages but also in their parents who greatly struggle with helping their children on their

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    Common Core This is every kid’s and teen’s worst nightmare, not the boogie man, not heights, not cooties, but Common Core. You may be asking, what is common core and what makes it so bad? Common core is a learning style that is supposed to prepare students for the world ahead of them by using more complex problems that the student will really have to think about to solve. This mainly effects the two subjects, math and language arts. Common Core had potential to be a great way to learn but the

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