Common core was set up to help students be prepared for real world careers. But common core has not succeeded in that factor. In an article written by James Bascom from a website named The Student Action stated that instead of teaching students the skills for careers in science, technology and engineering, it is teaching them a standard of math that is inadequate to prepare these students for those carreer fields. Before Common core came into place No Child Left Behind was in use. Which was later discontinued, accoridng to teacher Julie Borowski because “ teachers teach the test, which means that students are memorizing rather than learning and critical thinking about the information” (Borowski 2013). Which shows that the common core is using standarized tests to make sure that the students soak up the information and then regergertate it when it comes to test, and then forget that …show more content…
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