Common Core Tragedy

Tragedy of the Common Core Education is taking a step backwards instead of achieving new goals, and the ones in charge approve. The common core initiative, a recent controversial topic in government, is aimed to increase performance in school. However, multiple facts and students themselves are proving otherwise. The system is infiltrating this new standard that will only lead to a drawback in the future of America. There are multiple aspects that parents should consider before allowing the initiative to take further control in their children’s school. The Common Core has many promising guidelines – almost sounds like the perfect plan. The standard, drafted by experts and teachers, establishes
Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, to publish a new book entitled, “Drilling Through the Core: Why Common Core Is Bad for American Education.” Dr. Wood explains that the deceptive slogan “higher standards” didn’t mean higher intellectual content of the standards, but a higher percentage of students passing them with lower passing scores (Schlafly). The famous “white paper” in 2008 revealed that the goal by the Common Core architects, David Coleman and Jason Zimba, was to raise the number and diversity of students performing at highest levels (Schlafly). The Obama administration and corporation’s funded millions of dollars, in order to close the “achievement gap” from minorities, poor families, and middle-class homes. Instead of expecting less from these kids, the funding should go to making resources available for these children. They are capable of so much greater. The Common Core actually ends up making the achievement gap even worse. Kentucky fully implemented the standards, and the 2014-2015 showed that the performance gap between black kids and white kids expanded from 25 to 27 percent in reading and from 20 to 24 percent in math (Schlafly). The Common Core math is based on the theory that students should discover the principles themselves, and reading standards replace literature with non-fiction. The parents will not be able to help their children with homework, and the students loose inspiration. In Dr.Woods words the students are forced into “tediously complicated forms of computation” instead of simple shortcuts. Close to 65,000 students in New York opted out of the state’s Common Core tests in 2014, and opting out climbed to more than 200,000 in 2015 (Quinn). More children are proving the failure of the plan. This is the standard that is quickly taking over much of American