Persuasive Speech On Common Core Standards

Forty-two states have adopted Common Core State Standards. These standards were created to focus only on English and Mathematics. In effect of states adopting Common Core Standards, all other subjects taught in school seemed less important. History and Science standards are no longer stressed. Students are limited to being proficient in only two subjects. The Common Core deprives students’ ability to be skilled in multiple areas. These standards do not provide a slight “break” from the challenging fast past teaching of English and Mathematics. In addition to limiting education to English and Mathematics, Jill Bowden explains that the Common Core is affecting kindergarteners by taking “away from materials that encourage playful learning.” (36).

I want state legislators to understand that the state standards they are implementing are negatively affecting students’ educational success. Not every student learns at the same pace or is even capable of learning these standards. Individual children are different; and they are forced to guess or fabricate on these tests. Therefore, the Common Core is not achieving anything, and state legislators should take in consideration that children are not benefiting. State legislators are my ideal audience because they have the power to eliminate these state standards. My audience affects my rhetoric, therefore I will need to use professional and appropriate language to interest state legislators, for them to eliminate Common Core State

The view should be focused on what and how each of these pieces, intertwined, have led to success for some states and not others in terms of adoption, implementation, and then sustainable of the Standards and its specific learning goals. (80).

Both views make sense, yet they ignore the states without improvements, which demonstrates bias. Supporters of the Common Core probably agree with Welner and Gutierrez, but do not mention solutions for helping states reach for educational