While Common core provides a standard for all states to achieve the same level of academic excellence, Implementing new academic standards for all students to comprehend does not fix the academic achievements of Virginia or of the United States, because it doesn't implement any solutions to help students achieve higher standards, and fails to provide a better method to teach the curriculum to the students.
The daunting tone of the voices throughout the nation is raising apprehensions about the imposed Common Core State Standards (CCSS). If you pay attention clearly to the discussions, the vital concern is not solely in regards to the standards, but also towards the effects of the bemused tests ascribed to these standards. The standards have become foremost associated with the testing facet, rather than the deeper learning they were intended to promote. The CCSS initiative focuses exclusively on English language arts and mathematics skills evaluated primarily with multiple-choice tests. The multiple choice style of the end of year test taking advocated by the CCSS, while making the grading process
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While imperfect as it is, the CCSS initiative “focuses on developing the critical-thinking, problem-solving, and analytical skills students will need to be successful” (What parents should know, 2010, para. 2). Actual learning takes place when our students are motivated in the pursuit for knowledge and are prompted to understand a multifaceted problem and formulate a solution for it. Learning is a diverse process that does not defer easily to a subjective metric. The main questions that should be asked are whether the minds of our students are being challenged and are they vigorously engaged trying to work through their problems? Instead of making them memorize facts, the CCSS aspires to teach our students to