“The [Common] Core standards just set in concrete approaches to reading/writing that we already know don’t work very well. Having the Core standards set in concrete means that any attempts to innovate and improve reading/writing instruction will certainly be crushed,” Said Dr. Alan Manning of Brigham Young University about the common core being used in college. Into my first semester at college I have noticed most of my classes were just high school material but taught at a college level. An example of this would be math fundamentals and writing fundamentals. Students take these classes if they failed to meet the standard of that college. The student most passes those classes to actually take a math or English class that you will receive …show more content…
The common core is also used in high school. The goal of this is for students from New York to Hawaii were taught the same math and English classes. The idea was to help kids be ready for college. The idea of all schools teaching the same thing started in 1892, with the Committee of Ten. In Jennifer Wallender article, “The Common Core State Standards… Justification,” she quoted U.S Bureau of Education in 1892 goal of it. “The [goal] Committee of Ten attempted to conform high school educational standards to increase rigor and prepare certain students for college”(Wallender). This was one of the first attempts to set education standards for American schools. In 2001, President Bush attempted a bill with a similar idea with the No Child Left Behind Act. The bill let states created a “different accountability system”(ibid) to decide mastery levels of subjects. University of New Haven common core in simple terms is they students are required to take an Art or Music class, History, Math, English, and Science courses. The goal is simple to have students well around human beings so they do not hate people and to able to form their own ideas and express those ideas in multiple ways. Normally like most thinks they seem like good ideas and this idea will change