The Importance Of Common Core Standards

These days, Common Core Standards seem to be a hot topic of discussion across the country. People everywhere have heard these three words and have their own opinions about the effectiveness of this initiative that is impacting students, teachers administrators and communities across the United States. The Common Core is a newly devised set of learning standards that detail what students in grades k-12 nationwide should know in mathematics and English language arts by the end of each school year. Although these learning standards are aimed at providing clear consistent education standards, its implementation has been met with great resistance. Many who are opposed to these new standards are not necessarily opposed to the standards , but the roll-out and implementation of them because of the negative effect they are having on the students.

The Common Core is a new curriculum that is being adopted by states throughout the country. The Common Core was started as part of the American Diploma Project in 2009. “Originally it’s financial support included donations from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation in conjunction with NGA. States that embraced Common Core Standards would be eligible for this financial support.” (Scholastic.com).The Common Core standards are an education initiative in the United States that details what K-12 students are expected to have learned in English language arts and mathematics at the end of each school year. “State education chiefs and governors in 48 states collaborated to develop the Common Core, a set of clear college and career-ready standards for kindergarten through 12th grade in English language arts/literacy and mathematics.” (Common Core, FAQ). The initiative is sponsored by the Nation...

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...e, the clock will read 9:15 and the question asks draw what time it will be 55 minutes later. They draw the big hand and small hand on the face of the clock to match 10:10. Another method is the question will read a time and the kids have to draw the time on the face of the clock. The question will read 10:00 and the kids have to draw where the clock hands will be on the face of the clock. Another method for telling time is that there will be a set time on the face of the clock and they have to write what the time reads. The clock will read 12:30 on the face of the clock and they have to write 12:30. To help them work out the problems they are given a little plastic analog clock with moving hands. Many students became frustrated and had difficulty with this concept. I have found the Common Core Standards for math are much more difficult for children of this age.