The Importance Of Common Core Standards In School

While most people are aware of common core, there is confusion as to what it is and how it will help our children in school. The idea of common core state standards were considered in 2007 during a forum by CCSSO (Development Process). In 2009, the government started to offer financial incentives to states to sign up for the common core standards. The grant known as Race to the top got 49 states and territories to sign up for the standards sight unseen (Wood). By 2010, the final draft was done and common core began to be implemented into the schools. Now in 2014, 43 states still follow common core standards (Development process). While there were high hope around common core, it has proven to be a failure. There is and will continue to be problems circling around common core as there are no clear boundaries of what is being expected of our youth. There is a plethora of supporters for common core. Their focus remains on how well common core will benefit our youth. They state that even though untested before implemented, it will get our youth ready for college. Furthermore, they claim that it provides the skills needed for a more complex thinking strategy and the ability to work as a team player (Karas). Additionally, they protest that because standards are bench- marked it will be easier to raise …show more content…
Supporter credit the team work to common core. They also claim that common core will increase critical thinking in the students. Sadly, most parents noticed their children’s grades decreasing. Parents stated that they have seen a change in their children’s self-esteem since common core was implemented (Barclay). How is this truly benefiting America’s youth? The mathematics curriculum is complicated. It takes a simple math problem that should only have three steps to the solution and turns it into a fifteen-step process. Is this what pro common core view as critical