WHAT IS COMMON CORE?
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) was created by a group of governors and implemented in 2010 to reform the United States education system (Mark Sulzer, 2014). The CCSS was created to develop standards for what students, K-12, need to know in each grade to be ready for college and a future career. “These standards communicate what is expected at each grade level, placing students, parents, teachers and school administrators on the same page” (Susan Neuman, 2013). The CCSS is a set of goals and expectations, adopted by 43 states, in Math and English Arts that the students should know to succeed in college and their career; it is not a curriculum for teachers.
According to www.highereducation.org, 60 percent of first …show more content…
The United States education system has been considered to be in the middle of the road for education compared to other developed countries. Before Common Core, states would set their own standards of education and what was considered proficient and it was not uniform across the country. The US Education department found it difficult to determine every student’s proficiency in math and reading due to each states different standards. The US Education department created Common Core to create a uniform set of academic standards in the United States.
The creation of a uniform education system allows each child to be measured in their progress during the school year to similar aged students and that they are on the path to success. American families have become increasingly mobile families and with the implementation of CCSS, families will be able to move to a new school without their child falling behind (Susan B. Neuman, 2013). The CCSS, according to Neuman (2013), are aligned with college and work expectations, evidence based, include rigorous content and application of knowledge through higher order skills, and build on strengths and lessons of current state standards in Math and English Language …show more content…
Instead of teachers racing to cover many topics briefly, the standards now request that the teachers deepen their lesson plans and cover fewer topics during the school year (www.corestandards.org). Common Core math standards restructured the elementary standards to include more arithmetic. Elementary teachers spent time, in the classroom, on arithmetic along with other mathematical problems including, shapes, probability, and statistics (Jason Zimba, 2014). While everything that is being taught at the elementary level is relevant, arithmetic has more prevalence for the students because it directly leads to the understanding of algebra in later grades. Jason Zimba, a writer of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, describes the standards for each grade
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) was created by a group of governors and implemented in 2010 to reform the United States education system (Mark Sulzer, 2014). The CCSS was created to develop standards for what students, K-12, need to know in each grade to be ready for college and a future career. “These standards communicate what is expected at each grade level, placing students, parents, teachers and school administrators on the same page” (Susan Neuman, 2013). The CCSS is a set of goals and expectations, adopted by 43 states, in Math and English Arts that the students should know to succeed in college and their career; it is not a curriculum for teachers.
According to www.highereducation.org, 60 percent of first …show more content…
The United States education system has been considered to be in the middle of the road for education compared to other developed countries. Before Common Core, states would set their own standards of education and what was considered proficient and it was not uniform across the country. The US Education department found it difficult to determine every student’s proficiency in math and reading due to each states different standards. The US Education department created Common Core to create a uniform set of academic standards in the United States.
The creation of a uniform education system allows each child to be measured in their progress during the school year to similar aged students and that they are on the path to success. American families have become increasingly mobile families and with the implementation of CCSS, families will be able to move to a new school without their child falling behind (Susan B. Neuman, 2013). The CCSS, according to Neuman (2013), are aligned with college and work expectations, evidence based, include rigorous content and application of knowledge through higher order skills, and build on strengths and lessons of current state standards in Math and English Language …show more content…
Instead of teachers racing to cover many topics briefly, the standards now request that the teachers deepen their lesson plans and cover fewer topics during the school year (www.corestandards.org). Common Core math standards restructured the elementary standards to include more arithmetic. Elementary teachers spent time, in the classroom, on arithmetic along with other mathematical problems including, shapes, probability, and statistics (Jason Zimba, 2014). While everything that is being taught at the elementary level is relevant, arithmetic has more prevalence for the students because it directly leads to the understanding of algebra in later grades. Jason Zimba, a writer of the Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, describes the standards for each grade