Common Core State Standards Analysis

To obtain higher education gives one status in life. Education has been the key to success since the establishment of the United States. How, why, and when to educate our children has always been a hot topic. Every person has a different viewpoint on what’s works best for their child. The problem is in that the academic levels drastically vary from state to state. For example, at the age of 13 I met a transfer student from New York. She told me that the things we were learning in the 8th grade here in Georgia, she learned in the 6th grade in New York. It’s not a secret that the southern states have always dragged behind the northern states in standardized testing and college prep. Recently the states have endeavored to level the differences …show more content…
This issue is easily obfuscated as the standards don’t reveal themselves in narrow quotation…..bland, uncontroversial declarations.” (31). Wood calls it a dream “of a one-size fits all set of national education integrated with meaningful national test.” (30), which brings me to my next point, every child learns differently. The CCSS does not clearly address how slower learners, or children with disabilities will adapt to these fast paced new standards. They only offer theories. The Common Core State Standards Organization (CCSSO) continue to overlook that many low income households lack parental support due to a number of different factors, along with the necessary tools needed to be successful. The real issue is poverty. Depending on where you live or the dynamics of your family, the quality of your education may be limited. So children who already have disabilities, low grades, and/or lack adequate support at home will fall even further behind. With the CCSS being more technology based this too is a disadvantage for some children. In an article done by Alice Wexler she declared, “Children with disabilities and other traditionally marginalized group’s will he held to the same standards and rhetoric of college and career readiness.” (52). Wexler goes on to state, “writers overlook the disparity between enriched schools in prosperous neighborhoods and underfunded schools in the poorest neighborhood.” (52). It is a known fact that tax dollars drive the resources available to schools. Schools surrounded by government dependent households are not afforded the same luxuries. Poverty in the richest country of world is still going unnoticed. This in my opinion, is one of the greatest flaws of the CCSS. It’s as if someone put a band aid on a gaping wound. It is my belief that due to this fact an even greater wedge between success and