Common Core Critics Offer Too Little Too Late Summary

The article “Common Core critics offer too little, too late” by Jennifer Rubin originally appeared in the Right Turn section of The Washington Post in May of 2014. In this article, the author worked to try to convince the Common Core Standards which are

Part 2 As wonderful as the concept for Common Core Standards are the idea of a one size fits all country is not a reality. Common Core is not a bad idea it was just implemented incredibility quickly and in a sneaky way. The Common Core Standards were developed in approximately one year with little input from school teachers… This is especially concerning to the youngest students will have the most to lose in these standards are not correctly written. Common Core Standards are meant to as

The teachers that want their students to succeed and that will also be either rewarded or punished by how well their students perform on the test. They find themselves teaching to the tests not allowing them to teach the Common Core as a standard, but as a curriculum. Knowing first hand as a teachers aide in Crown Point High School in Indiana watching math and English teachers frustrated being only being able to teach to what would be on the next assessment allowing no room for error or if any students became confused on a certain lesson there is no time to stay on that lesson they have to keep moving. According to the article having a national academic standard will improve the quality of American education and push America in the global education race. According to the last assessment done by the Program for International Student Assessment the United States finished poorly which that article agrees but the article fails to include that the top 2 countries in this program do not have national standards. Another study found no correlation between the rigor of a particular states standard and it’s National