In the United States, we have fallen behind in the world in our education system. We are one of the few countries in the world that doesn’t have a standardized education system. According to Joyce VanTassel-Baska, author for Gifted Child magazine, common core standards are the second time we have tried to have a national standard for are education. In the 1980s were tried to do this, but the states fought against it that movement and defeated it. This shows that the problem with the education system has been around for a while now; and the US has tried to do something to fix the problem. The thing that held back the first attempt was that states would rather have an individualized curriculum for each student in their state than a national
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One potential advantage that they have, according to Parents4publicschools.org, is they will allows us to compare against other nations. The standards are comparable to the standards that other nations have. This means that the US which right now has fallen behind in the world in the terms of scores could now directly see how it is doing. Before the standards were created the US had a different curriculum making it harder to accurately compare the scores because the were different test that they were scoring. “All teachers will be teaching the same standards” (Parents4schools.org). This means that now teachers in one state will be teach the same thing no matter if one teacher is on the east coast and the other is on the west coast. This will also help students that move across the country in their transition to a new school. Before the standards a child might go to a new school that taught things at a different pace causing the child to have potential adjustment problems. That topping on to the fact that a child is completely new to an area and has no friends can make the transition potentially very harmful. So with standards, a child would have an easier transition to a new school. There are more benefits as well according to this source. “Common core standards will increase critical thinking and problem solving… will allow teachers to track a child’s progress instead of making comparisons to other students” (parents4publicschools.org). If common core standards can make children better critical thinkers and problems solvers; that is a huge plus. In today’s world it is better if you can think outside the box and will open mores doors to you if you can. For some children they don 't have to be creative to pass high school, so if the standards make children use those skills more often, and at an earlier age that would help them immensely.
One potential advantage that they have, according to Parents4publicschools.org, is they will allows us to compare against other nations. The standards are comparable to the standards that other nations have. This means that the US which right now has fallen behind in the world in the terms of scores could now directly see how it is doing. Before the standards were created the US had a different curriculum making it harder to accurately compare the scores because the were different test that they were scoring. “All teachers will be teaching the same standards” (Parents4schools.org). This means that now teachers in one state will be teach the same thing no matter if one teacher is on the east coast and the other is on the west coast. This will also help students that move across the country in their transition to a new school. Before the standards a child might go to a new school that taught things at a different pace causing the child to have potential adjustment problems. That topping on to the fact that a child is completely new to an area and has no friends can make the transition potentially very harmful. So with standards, a child would have an easier transition to a new school. There are more benefits as well according to this source. “Common core standards will increase critical thinking and problem solving… will allow teachers to track a child’s progress instead of making comparisons to other students” (parents4publicschools.org). If common core standards can make children better critical thinkers and problems solvers; that is a huge plus. In today’s world it is better if you can think outside the box and will open mores doors to you if you can. For some children they don 't have to be creative to pass high school, so if the standards make children use those skills more often, and at an earlier age that would help them immensely.