As the world continues to evolve, technology rapidly advancing, young children and the incoming generation will be the future leaders and citizens of this developing world. Therefore, they must possess the skills and intelligence that will help them keep up with this technological era. A child’s path to success in the future begins with education. Today, states have adopted the Common Core which they believe will lead to the betterment of the students. But first of all, what is Common Core? Common Core is a brand new set of “high-quality” standards in Math and English for K-12 students. Its goal is for every student to learn the same thing as every other student in the United States. The standards were announced on June 2, 2010, and now 42
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Schools and the Education department will need more funding in order to properly execute Common Core. The New York Times stated that the Education Department invested an amount of more than $370 million to create new standardized tests that follows the new standards and to ensure that their students will receive better test scores. Schools must get new school materials since the current ones are now considered obsolete. Also, it was reported that each “[s]tate will spend up to an estimated $10 billion up front, then as much as $800 million per year in order to cover for the expenses. For example, it will cost $1.6 billion for the state of California to implement the Common Core standards, replacing the old state standards they have used a long time ago. In Texas, an estimation of $3 billion is needed for “‘[a]dopting national standards and tests [which] also require[s] the purchase of new textbooks, assessments, and professional development tools.”2 Also, with all these massive changes teachers and staff may be pressured to leave their …show more content…
However, this claim is false, because it downgrades students’ intelligence. Experts claimed that the “Common Core curricula are not developmentally appropriate.” For example, in Common Core Math, students are instructed to use unnecessary steps to solve simple arithmetic problems, such as using “dots, dashes, boxes, hashmarks, and foam cubes,”3 which are silly and ineffective. Karen Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, stated that “Common Core eliminates creativity in the classroom and impedes collaboration.” Students are prohibited from creating their own methods to understand and practice the lessons they have learned in class. They must strictly follow the solutions or rules Common Core has instructed them on how to solve the problem even though it is senseless—Common Core “is a poison pill for learning.”4 For states who has not yet adopted the Common Core standards in their education system, but is planning to, they should just abandon that idea and stick with their current ones. On the other hand, for the states who have adopted Common Core, they should discontinue it and return to using their old standards. The standards called Common Core are not so “high-quality” as its creators said it is, because unsuccessfully teaches K-12 students important fundamentals needed for STEM careers in college, the expenses to implement it is costly, and instead of making students
Schools and the Education department will need more funding in order to properly execute Common Core. The New York Times stated that the Education Department invested an amount of more than $370 million to create new standardized tests that follows the new standards and to ensure that their students will receive better test scores. Schools must get new school materials since the current ones are now considered obsolete. Also, it was reported that each “[s]tate will spend up to an estimated $10 billion up front, then as much as $800 million per year in order to cover for the expenses. For example, it will cost $1.6 billion for the state of California to implement the Common Core standards, replacing the old state standards they have used a long time ago. In Texas, an estimation of $3 billion is needed for “‘[a]dopting national standards and tests [which] also require[s] the purchase of new textbooks, assessments, and professional development tools.”2 Also, with all these massive changes teachers and staff may be pressured to leave their …show more content…
However, this claim is false, because it downgrades students’ intelligence. Experts claimed that the “Common Core curricula are not developmentally appropriate.” For example, in Common Core Math, students are instructed to use unnecessary steps to solve simple arithmetic problems, such as using “dots, dashes, boxes, hashmarks, and foam cubes,”3 which are silly and ineffective. Karen Lewis, the president of the Chicago Teachers Union, stated that “Common Core eliminates creativity in the classroom and impedes collaboration.” Students are prohibited from creating their own methods to understand and practice the lessons they have learned in class. They must strictly follow the solutions or rules Common Core has instructed them on how to solve the problem even though it is senseless—Common Core “is a poison pill for learning.”4 For states who has not yet adopted the Common Core standards in their education system, but is planning to, they should just abandon that idea and stick with their current ones. On the other hand, for the states who have adopted Common Core, they should discontinue it and return to using their old standards. The standards called Common Core are not so “high-quality” as its creators said it is, because unsuccessfully teaches K-12 students important fundamentals needed for STEM careers in college, the expenses to implement it is costly, and instead of making students