The Shanker Institute called for the adoption of Common Core national standards for the entire United States. Many professors, governmental officials, analysts, educators, experts, and parents disagree. Read the critical response.
Common Core State Standards
Are the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) the solution to all our education ills? No, but they are the pet project of bureaucrats, data-analysts, employees at the Federal Department of Education, and the like.
The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief School State Officers who are the proponents of the Common Core State Standards claim that the new standards will be an ideal solution for improving education in the U.S.A. But a leading education specialist calls the standards “pedagogically useless.”
See the reasons the Washington State Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction wants to adopt the Common Core State Standards…. and the refutations of each reason below each statement.
“….But are the Common Core Standards really “revolutionary”? Or are they fundamentally the same as the sets of standards that currently exist in each of the 50 states, different only in their wording?….”
Common Core Standards of education for all the states is not the magic solution it claims to be.
In Communist China, the government keeps data files on each of the ordinary citizens. Unfortunately, that system is well underway to being created here in the USA too.
“If we accomplish one thing in the coming years it should be to eliminate the extreme variation in standards across America,” stated Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Does this mean uniform mediocrity?
Not another federal education program! The schools will need to jump through more hoops, but will the student actually learn more?
Common Core Standards or any nationally mandated, one-size-fits-all-states standards are a mistake for the country. Each state is to manage its own educational affairs according to the Tenth Amendment of the Bill of Rights. The Common Core standards are content-free and similar to the old WASL standards. What next? A national WASL test?