In recent years, ideas on how children should be raised have shifted within society. In his essay “Are Kids Too Coddled?” author Frank Bruni argues that parents have become overprotective, reducing children’s exposure to difficulties and, in turn, reducing the children’s preparedness for adult life. He supports a more rigorous education, and in particular the introduction of the Common Core, a federal curriculum that is more difficult than many local school programs. Bruni is correct in that children should be exposed to their raw environment so that they can learn and develop as mature, confident, and competitive individuals.…
The author, Timothy Shanahan, wrote “You Want me to Read What?!” which was published in November of 2013 in the Educational Leadership publication, and he makes a valid argument that informational text is as important as literary readings in the English classroom. Shanahan builds on his standing with facts clearly built from his research, citing compelling facts and data. Shanahan’s “You Want me to Read What?!” effectively persuades that teaching informational text and literary readings are equally important by presenting an optimistic view combined with strong evidence, research and statistics.…
Past President George W. Bush presented the No Child Left Behind Act to help the children in school who were falling behind their classmates. It is understandable to be concerned about the student’s well being and education; however, this is not the way to provide the best results. By creating a system where everyone has to think and learn at the same pace, hinders those who learn at a much faster and higher level. This creates a society of conventional students, rather than imaginative and critical thinkers. Common Core has added to the “equal education” movement by creating a curriculum so simple it makes the students over think and feel stupid.…
These children are suffering from mental and physical pain than ever before. Having standards are good for children to make them want to achieve great things and push them self to be better but the standards need to be more reasonable because over testing is not the option. Susan Rakow author of The Common Core: The Good, the Bad, the Possible “We may find ourselves so standards- and test-driven that all the activities we use to develop healthy, balanced middle grades students are eliminated”. Children being able to strive in school and outside of school should be the main goal for everyone these kids are going to be the ones running this country some day and they need to be taught properly. They need to be able to express themselves and be their own person not this cookie cutter child Common Core is trying to make them.…
The Common Core has been a controversial topic since it was first initiated in 2010, causing concern among students, parents, teachers, and even government officials. Despite the strong distaste people are showing, the department of education praises the common core for providing students learning goals to help prepare them for future careers, and college. In practice, however, the common core has proven to have negative effects on the development of student education. The Common Core, also known as Common Core State Standards (CCSS), are academic standards set in Math and English, for grades k-12, through which the bulk of the Unites states has been forced to adopt.…
Forty-four states in the United States have adopted the Common Core State Standards Initiative; an educational initiative that sets standards for what is expected knowledge for each grade level, from kindergarten through high school. The program is intended to insure that educational standards are met by every student throughout compulsory schooling and that students are prepared to begin college courses or join the work force following their high school graduation. Common Core relies largely on standardized tests to gauge students’ understanding of English language arts and mathematics, with less focus on social studies and science. The program was first implemented in Kentucky, where it was modestly effective, and was subsequently adopted…
Changing an education system that is not broken may do more harm than good. The Common Core…
The standardized system of Common Core was implemented to make sure that the standards are consistent throughout all the states that inforce Common Core (ideally, every state). Ever since Common Core was put into practice, it has been a controversial issue. Some viewed the federal government’s act of implementing these standards as a “sneaky attack on the states’ rights and control” (The Promises and Possibilities of Common Core State Standards, p. 31-44). As I previously stated, this has always been a controversial issue and throughout recent years has become a nationally debated issue with global attention. However, the year 2009 was not the first time that this federal vs. state education problem happened in recent history.…
Most people have a general sense of what the common core is but they are uneducated just to what it actually entails. In 2009 the standards for teaching in our schools that we know as the common core were launched. According to the common core’s website, corestandards.org, the common core was created in order to have equal standardize across our nation. Before the common core, states were able to mandate their own expectations of their students leading to an unbalanced education system. These standards were set into place in order to prepare students for higher education and careers.…
Many aspects of this program are below the standards the children of the United States deserve, and yet it is an ongoing battle to show how so few can benefit from it. Even in the presidential election that we just finished all but one candidate admitted that they were against Common Core. Back in 2001 George W. Bush put into place “No Child Left Behind”.…
That is what education standards or The Common Core Standards are known for. The bigger problem is the role that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are playing in the larger dynamics of current school reform, the subjects covering the CCSS, parents concerns about the program itself, and the somewhat education politics behind it. The Common Core should be used in schools to help educate children and to help raise their…
From elementary school to high school, students are constantly going through changes and a great deal of learning that helps them accomplish the daily tasks they will have in the future. Because of this, the way they learn these things is critical. If the children do not learn the right material or learn it the right way, there is a great chance that they will struggle in the future. Today, the way students learn is based on a standard called Common Core.…
Bush signed a piece of legislature called the No Child Left Behind Act in order to make strides toward reforming schools. This act would serve to hold schools responsible for the failure of their students by measuring success with “adequate yearly progress,” or AYP; if a school not proven to have achieved AYP, a series of guidelines was implemented in order to assist improvement (Klein). Though NCLB initially had widespread support for its positive changes, the one-size-fits-all approach began having negative repercussions in the form of excessive standardized testing. More recently, the Common Core standards of education have further ingrained the teaching of unnecessary knowledge as preparation for enforced examinations into schooling by continuing to utilize the aforementioned one-size-fits-all approach. Overall, these pieces of legislation have one glaring similarity: the attempt to test the intelligence of students through examinations, a vast majority of which neglect to include skills that will be contribute towards success in the…
Common Core standards are set in place in the education system to prepare children for college. Giving students knowledge and thinking skills from kindergarten through twelve grade. The Common Core has caused debate from teachers, parents, and politics whether it should be in place or not. Some feel positive the Common Core, should be in place due to, the work it prepares students for and others feel, as if it is a burned on teachers creativity skills. Also, each state would be fair and have the same standards in the Education System.…
What did you learned today? Whether you attended school or watched television, you learned something today. What was it? Our human evolution has been successful because of our ability to learn. Our species has learned how to make hunting tools, light bulbs, cars, and spaceships.…