Debate Paper on Common Core
Debating the old standards and new standards of the school system is recognizing how well children are performing in school now and how well they perform when they are out of school. An additional thing to think about is the different neighbors, which could be just across town. These schools might have higher educational standards on their children’s education, then other schools. As in many states that have different standards on what children should learn and what is not necessary for them to learn. Common core is one standard that has been adopted by typically amount all states. Having one standard is treating all children the same and holding them all accountable for these standards. However, the state of Louisiana adopted the common core knowing that all students are not the same or learn at the same levels.
Louisiana incremented common core, because they believe that their students are just as capable of learning as other students (White, 2013). Louisiana school system was ranking at number 44th in 2008 and has jumped to number 42th in the year 2013 (White, 2013). The common core standards were incremented into the school system in Louisiana in 2014; therefore this data shows that the old school standards had some bearings on the increase of the rankings. However, the Federal Government standards testing showed that the majority of the students were below the state standards in reading and language. Then the average grade for students in Louisiana is a “C”, which is basic for statewide scores (White, 2013). The state believes that the common core system will improve these scores. Common core will prepare each student for when they graduate and enter into college and real life situations. Student...
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Common Core State Standards Initiative The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) Initiative has been a controversy topic from the time it was developed and implemented in 2010 to present, even though several states implemented the initiative. Common Core State Standard Initiative is the process of expanding on the existing state standards without starting from scratch, to prepare the students starting in the early grades, which provide teachers the opportunity and time to teach them and give students
excellent explanation of Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in an NEA policy brief: “We believe that this initiative is a critical step in state efforts to provide every student with a comprehensive, content rich education. These standards can support the collaboration across states and stakeholders by providing programs; resources and policies that will help overcome the weaknesses and inequalities in our schools today” (2007). In addition, common core state standards are also about creating grade-level
falling behind year after year. Yet, we are adding programs to our education system that suggested it would help our kids to more proficient in the classroom. Therefore, is this new approach on education really helping students? It seems that the Common Core debate is not just being fought in the classroom, but also in the court. The issue of a demising education structure
about this is that students are getting extra help now. Nonetheless a negative impact on this act is that teachers are just teaching so that a child can pass a test. And lastly, another change that has happened in the education system is the Common Core Standard.
Cursive handwriting has been taught in American schools for the past 300 years and once was the principle way of communicating (Blazer, 2010). The declining emphasis of learning cursive handwriting can be attributed technological advances. The debate over the value of handwriting instruction didn’t start with the introduction of the computer; it dates back to the debut of the Remington typewriter in 1873 and is revived with each new technological advance, including the Dictaphone, the Xerox machine
The Foundational Knowledge Standard involves preparing individuals for roles in the reading profession and encompasses the major theories, research, and best practices that share an agreement of acceptance in the reading field. Individuals who enter the reading profession should understand the historically shared knowledge of the profession and develop the capacity to act on that knowledge responsibly. (IRA Standards, 2010). This semester I really learned how I could develop the capacity to learn
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the education of future generations and what effects may take place if classic standards are removed from the school system, replaced with a modern and technological way of teaching. Many parents have brought forth their own thoughts of concern by blogging online, speaking to educators and even protesting in order to preserve the traditional guidelines for the English language. Until the 1920’s, cursive was the standard style of writing in America’s educational system. It was then that what is now
There has been much debate surrounding new social movement theory. Steven Buechler, who has written multiple critiques on this subject, refers to new social movement theory as “a congeries of interrelated ideas and arguments that comprise new social movement theories” (Buechler, 2013). Whilst there are common distinctions that separate new social movements from their predecessors, in essence new social movement theory is a compilation of conflicting ideas proposed by different theorists, which has
Strategic Outsourcing The purpose of this paper is to explore the strategic advantages and disadvantages of outsourcing information technology (IT) functions. More importantly, it is to discuss the viability of outsourcing specific strategic functions, such as software development, hardware maintenance and network management, which have been among the most common non-core functions outsourced organizations. In exploring the strategic advantages and disadvantages of IT outsourcing, several sources
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