Common Core Standards Pros And Cons

Let us face it, our school system is broken. And the government thought they could make an easy fix. In 2009, 48 state leaders, 2 territory leaders, and the District of Columbia solicited the help of hundreds of teachers and other educational experts to create the Common Core. The Common Core Standards are a list of skills and concepts designed to ensure that all children, no matter where they live or how much money they have or do not have, learn the same basic things (Dagnal-Myron). The standards are mainly for the English language arts and math curriculums nationwide. As the Common Core Initiative puts it, these standards were developed to “…establish clear, consistent guidelines for what every student should know and be able to do in math and English Language Arts from Kindergarten through 12th grade” (Prepping America’s Students for Success). There are plenty of pros and cons to this, as well as anything else

It was developed with one goal in mind: “to strengthen the United States’ global competitive advantage by rigorously educating the next generation” (Seman). From the time a child enters Kindergarten to the time he or she graduates from the twelfth grade, they will have been on the same learning path as someone who is doing the same thing thousands of miles away from them. The federal government wants to be able to measure how children are learning, as opposed to letting them learn on their own pace and letting the teachers be able to slow down or speed up according to their class. Unfortunately, the government will never be able to measure how creative a child is. They will never be able to measure the appreciation that a child has for their teachers. And they will never be able to measure how curious children are about subjects. If you take these things away from our children, what do we have