Common Core Standards Essay

You are sitting at your kitchen table waiting for your child to come from school. You know he is going to come in cheery and happy. As your child comes, he unexpectedly starts crying. You are startled as you run up to him and ask what’s wrong. He says that he got a really bad score and he thinks his grade dropped. You reassure him and start helping him on his test mistakes. As you read the questions, you progressively get more and more confused on how to solve the question. You think in your head, “How do you explain the answer to 32 x 20?” You look at the bottom of the paper and see the logo CCSS/Common Core State Standards. You wonder if Common Core is helping students get a higher education or just making it tougher for students. Common Core is forcing teachers to teach students Core standards, but these standards aren’t what future grades want/need. In Common Core isn’t preparing students very well for college or career, new report says, the author

Common Core is making it harder for poor minorities to pass and succeed on tests. In the article The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students, Diane Ravitch explains, “The people who wrote the Common Core standards sold them as a way to improve achievement and reduce the gaps between rich and poor, and black and white. But the promises haven’t come true” (Ravitch). Middle/ high-class families are well-off on the tests by Common Core, but the low-class usually score the worst. Failure rates in Common Core tests are staggeringly high for black and Hispanic people. States reported a 12-point black/white achievement gap between average third-grade English Language Arts scores, and a 14-point gap in eighth-grade English Language Arts (ELA) scores (Strauss). Failing these tests creates a sense of failure increasing depression and/or dropouts. No wonder why people are pushing back against this