Common Troubling Standards

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The Troubling Standards As different individual beings we are different in every way, shape, and form. The way we learn and the way that we are able to pick up and make sense of information is different. No individual or student is going to be the same or have the same learning ability as another individual or student. For these reasons are that Common Core Standards should not be in use. Common core standards should not be in use because every student has different learning abilities. In a classroom full of different individuals it becomes difficult for for students who take more time for develope and make sense of he information being presented to them, then for those who can easily pick up information and make sense of. According to …show more content…
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…
“Why Is Common Core Bad for Children's Education?” TFP Student Action, 20 fe f Jan. 2016, www.tfpstudentaction.org/blog/9-reasons-why-common-core-is-bad-for-education. Fgfd Accessed 30 Mar. 2017.
Borowski, Julie. “Top 10 Reasons to Oppose Common Core.” Top Ten Reasons to Oppose Common Core. FreedomWOrks, 26 July 2013, www.freedomworks.org/content/top-10- reasons-oppose-common-core. Accessed 30 March 2017
Singer, Alan. “Results Are in: Common Core FAils Tests and Kids.” The Huffington Post, Thehuffingtonpost.com, 2 May 2016, www.huffingtonpost.com/alan -singer/results-are-in-com dfddd mon-co_b_9819736.html.Accessed 4 Apr.

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