Common Core Essay

Common Core
Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in Math, English, Language Arts, and Literacy (“Common Core”). The standards outline what every student should be able to interpret by the end of the grade (“Common Core”). The standards are supposed to allow students to be ready when they graduate from high school regardless of where they are taught (“Common Core”). Forty-two states, the District of Columbia, four territories, and the Department of Defense Education Activity have adopted and fully believe that Common Core is necessary (“Common Core”). However I do not agree with the Common Core Curriculum in any way. I believe that every child learns in a different way and at a different pace. If we continue to hold children …show more content…

Common Core is attempting to use approaches such as standardized testing to create equality between every student but Common Core is actually discouraging students to be who they are and holding them up to unfair standards in which they will be evaluated on.
Common Core is attempting to create equality among all children that are in the same grade level, no matter where they are from or what level they are currently at in their learning. What Common Core advocates fail to realize is that the Common Core curriculum is actually discouraging children to …show more content…

With these standardized tests comes a time limit in which the student is given to complete each subject. Having a time limit on a test does not give the child a chance to fully think through each question resulting in test scores that could possibly be higher if they were given the opportunity to perform these tests at their own paces. Also standardized testing does not account for the different ways a child learns. If a child struggles with reading, for example, he or she may not be able to complete as much of the test as a child that excels in reading. Because of his or her inability to read and comprehend the questions and answers as fast as the child that excels in reading, the struggling child will most likely not be able to answer the same amount of questions in the same amount of time as the child that excels. The resulting test scores would fail to show the struggling child’s full ability because the child might not have had enough time to complete the test. The No Child Left Behind program is based on creating an equality for all children in their learning environments and was put into effect with hopes of dramatically increasing performance in academics. According to an argument on Common Core Standards, “No Child Left Behind failed to significantly increase academic performance or positively affect the education of undeserved black and Latino students and had a negative impact