The Common Core State Standards were released in 2010 for English language arts and mathematics. The Standards were enacted to create a set of college-and-career-ready curriculums to follow for kindergarten through grade twelve. Presently, 42 states and the District of Columbia have agreed to implement the standards in their schools with the hope of creating college and career ready students by the time they are supposed to graduate high school. The creation of these standards has created a large impact and many changes in the schools that have implemented them. These standards are meant to be consistent across each state, therefore, regardless of where students live, they can receive the same level education and also transition from school-to-school
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“Prior to the standards movement, the textbook largely defined what students should learn. The textbook was the curriculum. But when standards began defining what students should learn, a sudden vacuum in curriculum support became apparent” (Kendall, 2011). The Common Core standards happen to be very controversial among many individuals. The first reason why it is said to be controversial is that there is no evidence that the standards actually raise student’s achievement, yes the standards are still young but the overall progress has not been researched enough. State legislators were not given a voice in the process and it was done solely through state Boards of Education without feedback or support of teachers and parents. The standards also put a huge limit on how content will be taught to students by creating “instruction based standards”, this is controversial because it puts restriction on teachers own creativity and ideas and implies an obvious flawed assumption that every child learns equally by creating strict methods to teaching guidelines. The standards also favor informational texts which is controversial because it decreases the amount of literature that is able to be read in the …show more content…
There are many factors that affect a child’s social development but a major factor is their home and school environment. Children are all born with innate social competencies and strengths and weaknesses in attention, language, memory, and motor skills (Pianta, 1999). These strengths and weaknesses should be detected by the time children exit out of elementary school. The development for social skills in society are promoted by learning how to control one’s behavior, assume responsibility for one’s behavior, accepting individual differences of others, supporting others, sharing, working alone, or alongside others, and being able to take leadership roles. In school and at home children should be taught to respect others and control their own behavior and know right from
“Prior to the standards movement, the textbook largely defined what students should learn. The textbook was the curriculum. But when standards began defining what students should learn, a sudden vacuum in curriculum support became apparent” (Kendall, 2011). The Common Core standards happen to be very controversial among many individuals. The first reason why it is said to be controversial is that there is no evidence that the standards actually raise student’s achievement, yes the standards are still young but the overall progress has not been researched enough. State legislators were not given a voice in the process and it was done solely through state Boards of Education without feedback or support of teachers and parents. The standards also put a huge limit on how content will be taught to students by creating “instruction based standards”, this is controversial because it puts restriction on teachers own creativity and ideas and implies an obvious flawed assumption that every child learns equally by creating strict methods to teaching guidelines. The standards also favor informational texts which is controversial because it decreases the amount of literature that is able to be read in the …show more content…
There are many factors that affect a child’s social development but a major factor is their home and school environment. Children are all born with innate social competencies and strengths and weaknesses in attention, language, memory, and motor skills (Pianta, 1999). These strengths and weaknesses should be detected by the time children exit out of elementary school. The development for social skills in society are promoted by learning how to control one’s behavior, assume responsibility for one’s behavior, accepting individual differences of others, supporting others, sharing, working alone, or alongside others, and being able to take leadership roles. In school and at home children should be taught to respect others and control their own behavior and know right from