Common Core Standards

Common Core and the effects on America’s English Language Learners

Since being introduced in 2010, forty-four States have now adopted the Common Core State Standards Initiative. This initiative provides standards in English, Language Arts and Math. Every child in a public school will be expected to meet each standard for their grade level in these areas. These standards are designed to guarantee that every child in America will be on par with each other. They use the example in their 3 minute video about a child in Seattle who has an A in his English class but would be receiving a C in a public school in Chicago(Understanding Common Core). These standards are also designed to insure that American youth are graduating high school with the
When Common Core was first developed English Language Proficiency Development (ELPD) Standards were left up to the individual states. Starting in 2012 Common Core recognized that a standard for ELPD would need to be developed. In 2012 the Council of Chief State Officers produced a basic framework for states to use when adapting their ELL standards. They also hired the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers and Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium to prepare the assessment test prototypes. According to TESOL on testing “[the tests will] be administered by computer, both consortia are exploring technology-based accommodations, such as pop up glossaries and captions for audio. To ensure the widest accessibility to the test items” (7). By using measures such as extra glossaries and captions it should take some of the pressure off the students. Common Core firmly states that only by regular standardized tests can teachers and the rest of the education community truly understand what students are
NCLB clearly defined that if a child failed, then the school would be required to use [article title] funding to provide the student the ability to travel to a school where they could get better education. Diana Ranivitch in her article with the Washington Post poses the same question what will happen to students who fail. How much funding will go to provide tutoring? What will the repercussions be for teachers whose students are not meeting the standard? Will schools who consistently fail the standards be