The assessment is used to decide whether a program accomplishes the goals of the program and ensures stakeholders stay on task producing constantly improving results by examining all areas of the program, including needs assessments, cost analysis, staffing roles and responsibilities, efficiency audits, direct professional results and next steps.
The article presented two different viewpoints regarding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). An article printed in the American Educator stated that every learner and educator will benefit from the implantation of national educational standards with common components because of the higher rigor and the standards will be created to be adaptable to the learner’s ability level (A Call For Common Content, …show more content…
Sower (2015) stated that Dr. Sandra Stotsky and Dr. James Milgram both served on the Validation Committee to approve a common national curriculum. They found that the rigor of the standards was not as rigorous as reported. Dr. Stotsky and Dr. Milgram stated their opinion that the common curriculum as presented did not present any challenge to students. Dr Stotsky and Dr. Milgram both refused to approve the CCSS. Meador (2016) stated that the CCSS were written to the middle and that while raising some states rigor the standards actually lowers standards of several other states. The SAT according to Sower (2015) has been rewritten because Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and David Coleman, College Board president, proponents of a common curriculum in the United States have aligned the SAT test with the CCSS. The SAT has been an adaptable test. The primary function of the test was to forecast the success of the test taker in college. Sower (2015) stated the SAT test now is a test that tells what the test taker currently knows and understands. Sower is inferring that the test has lost is uniqueness and the SAT’s value has diminished and our students and family’s education is being controlled by unelected and unqualified individuals. Another reason the United States does not need a common curriculum is that the family and local political communities under CCSS are no longer the educational leaders of the nation (Toscano, 2013, p. 428). Toscano (2013) also stated the United States of America was built on the family unit and families uniting to form communities (p.
The article presented two different viewpoints regarding the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). An article printed in the American Educator stated that every learner and educator will benefit from the implantation of national educational standards with common components because of the higher rigor and the standards will be created to be adaptable to the learner’s ability level (A Call For Common Content, …show more content…
Sower (2015) stated that Dr. Sandra Stotsky and Dr. James Milgram both served on the Validation Committee to approve a common national curriculum. They found that the rigor of the standards was not as rigorous as reported. Dr. Stotsky and Dr. Milgram stated their opinion that the common curriculum as presented did not present any challenge to students. Dr Stotsky and Dr. Milgram both refused to approve the CCSS. Meador (2016) stated that the CCSS were written to the middle and that while raising some states rigor the standards actually lowers standards of several other states. The SAT according to Sower (2015) has been rewritten because Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, and David Coleman, College Board president, proponents of a common curriculum in the United States have aligned the SAT test with the CCSS. The SAT has been an adaptable test. The primary function of the test was to forecast the success of the test taker in college. Sower (2015) stated the SAT test now is a test that tells what the test taker currently knows and understands. Sower is inferring that the test has lost is uniqueness and the SAT’s value has diminished and our students and family’s education is being controlled by unelected and unqualified individuals. Another reason the United States does not need a common curriculum is that the family and local political communities under CCSS are no longer the educational leaders of the nation (Toscano, 2013, p. 428). Toscano (2013) also stated the United States of America was built on the family unit and families uniting to form communities (p.