The Common Core experiment
Writing 122
Joe Spurgeon
October 19, 2015
In 2001 the Federal government passed the no child left behind act. This law requires states to create rigorous standardized assessments, then pass at least 95 percent of all students to continue to receive federal subsidies. However, states are not required to meet the same standards, for example, a student in the state of Oregon who passes Oregon’s assessments, could fail the standards of Massachusetts. Thus this led to the creation of the Common Core State Standards in 2009 by the Council of Chief state school Officers and the National Governors Association. The Center for Public Education defines CCSS’s main goal as making students career and college ready. …show more content…
The principle behind standardized testing is to make sure a student is ready for the next grade, or to graduate high school. They also serve as a gauge of the schools ability to prepare students for that next step in their education. Standardized testing is completely undermined if students can opt out. Yet that’s what is happening with Common Core. An article by Time Magazine found that “[s]ome superintendents in New York are reporting that 60 percent or even 70 percent of their students are refusing to sit for the exams” and in 2015 1.1 million students refused to take the test (Cassidy, 2015). There is no legitimate way to know if Common Core is raising the national benchmark if states continue to allow students to opt out of standardized …show more content…
(2013, October). Understanding the common core: what they are – what they are not. Center for Public Education, p.16.
Cassidy, C. A. (2015). Thousands of kids opt out of standardized common core tests across u.s. Time.Com, N.PAG.
Perry, Rick, Governor. Office of the governor. Letter to secretary of education Arne Duncan. 13 Jan. 2010. p.1-3.
Miller, T., & Hanna, R. (2014, March 24). Four years latter, are race to the top states on track?. Center for american progress, p.1-7.
Stotsky, S. (n.d.). Sandra stotsky, edd. University of Arkansas, N.PAG.
Stotsky, S. Wurman, Z. (2010, July). Common core’s standards still don’t make the grade why Massachusetts and California must regain control over their academic destinies. Pioneer Institute, p.27.
Stotsky, S., & Milgram, J. (2013). Can this country survive common core's college readiness level? University of Arkansa's Department of Education, p.8.
Loveless, T. (2012, February) How well are American students learning?. The 2012 brown center report on American education, p.10
Loveless, T. (2012, February) How well are American students learning?. The 2014 brown center report on American education,
Writing 122
Joe Spurgeon
October 19, 2015
In 2001 the Federal government passed the no child left behind act. This law requires states to create rigorous standardized assessments, then pass at least 95 percent of all students to continue to receive federal subsidies. However, states are not required to meet the same standards, for example, a student in the state of Oregon who passes Oregon’s assessments, could fail the standards of Massachusetts. Thus this led to the creation of the Common Core State Standards in 2009 by the Council of Chief state school Officers and the National Governors Association. The Center for Public Education defines CCSS’s main goal as making students career and college ready. …show more content…
The principle behind standardized testing is to make sure a student is ready for the next grade, or to graduate high school. They also serve as a gauge of the schools ability to prepare students for that next step in their education. Standardized testing is completely undermined if students can opt out. Yet that’s what is happening with Common Core. An article by Time Magazine found that “[s]ome superintendents in New York are reporting that 60 percent or even 70 percent of their students are refusing to sit for the exams” and in 2015 1.1 million students refused to take the test (Cassidy, 2015). There is no legitimate way to know if Common Core is raising the national benchmark if states continue to allow students to opt out of standardized …show more content…
(2013, October). Understanding the common core: what they are – what they are not. Center for Public Education, p.16.
Cassidy, C. A. (2015). Thousands of kids opt out of standardized common core tests across u.s. Time.Com, N.PAG.
Perry, Rick, Governor. Office of the governor. Letter to secretary of education Arne Duncan. 13 Jan. 2010. p.1-3.
Miller, T., & Hanna, R. (2014, March 24). Four years latter, are race to the top states on track?. Center for american progress, p.1-7.
Stotsky, S. (n.d.). Sandra stotsky, edd. University of Arkansas, N.PAG.
Stotsky, S. Wurman, Z. (2010, July). Common core’s standards still don’t make the grade why Massachusetts and California must regain control over their academic destinies. Pioneer Institute, p.27.
Stotsky, S., & Milgram, J. (2013). Can this country survive common core's college readiness level? University of Arkansa's Department of Education, p.8.
Loveless, T. (2012, February) How well are American students learning?. The 2012 brown center report on American education, p.10
Loveless, T. (2012, February) How well are American students learning?. The 2014 brown center report on American education,