Educational reform has been a hot topic in the political arena for over a decade, and as a result government organizations have collected statistics and implemented plans that have lead up to the United States current implementation of common core standards across the nation. While almost every state has adopted this policy, many are questioning the affect that the implementation of such a program will have on the students. The use of the new common core standards has left many educators and parents wondering why their state has implemented a program that has a lower success rate than that of No Child Left Behind (NCLB), which was a highly criticized educational reform that was enacted during the Bush administration (Murphy, 2014).
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After the failure of NCLB, many were skeptical about these new Common Core standards. These standards were written and produced by many who not only did not have a background in education, but also those that would profit most from there implementation, testing and book publishing companies (Murphy, 2014). Not only have both NCLB and Common Core standards failed in their goal to make American public education as successful as those of countries that are leading in education statistics, but it has actually created a larger concern and closed many schools that failed to reach the unrealistic standards set for students (Rethinking Schools, …show more content…
Education is a central process focused on in middle childhood, when much of this yearly testing through Common Core is occurring. Through educational success many children during this period of development find a sense of self-efficacy and learn about social expectations expected of them (Newman & Newman, 2012). By testing students during this period of development, and having most of them performing poorly, the results are implying that the students are not performing up to societies standards and measures of success. This can lead to many forming a self-fulfilling prophecy and not performing to their highest ability because society believes they are unable to do so. This can be detrimental to not only academic success, but also a students outlook on life as a whole and can cause a number of out comes including social withdrawal and social aggression (Newman & Newman,
With the …show more content…
After the failure of NCLB, many were skeptical about these new Common Core standards. These standards were written and produced by many who not only did not have a background in education, but also those that would profit most from there implementation, testing and book publishing companies (Murphy, 2014). Not only have both NCLB and Common Core standards failed in their goal to make American public education as successful as those of countries that are leading in education statistics, but it has actually created a larger concern and closed many schools that failed to reach the unrealistic standards set for students (Rethinking Schools, …show more content…
Education is a central process focused on in middle childhood, when much of this yearly testing through Common Core is occurring. Through educational success many children during this period of development find a sense of self-efficacy and learn about social expectations expected of them (Newman & Newman, 2012). By testing students during this period of development, and having most of them performing poorly, the results are implying that the students are not performing up to societies standards and measures of success. This can lead to many forming a self-fulfilling prophecy and not performing to their highest ability because society believes they are unable to do so. This can be detrimental to not only academic success, but also a students outlook on life as a whole and can cause a number of out comes including social withdrawal and social aggression (Newman & Newman,