Pros And Cons Of Common Core

Common Core: According to About the Standards (2017), the Common Core is an arrangement of certain measures in math and English. These learning objectives layout what an average child should know by the end of their school year/semester and there are final tests involved in order to measure the student’s learning and measure the teacher’s teaching ability. The goal is to prepare students for their lives after high school whether it be in a trade, college, or minimum wage job. Forty-two states along with the District of Columbia are enforcing the Common Core standard in their schools (para. 2). When most people hear the phrase “Common Core,” they think of that terrible program that states forced into schools. They believe that it is taking away the actual learning in school and is leaning towards the testing side of things. In reality, there are multiple opinions about how the common core is
Common Core was implemented to give students a fair chance in the world. Typically, it is believed that the United States is below average in education, but PISA (2015) reports that the United States only falls below the national average in mathematics and it’s only a little bit below average (2015 Results). They also reported that when looking at all of the national rankings, we are ranked with average scores in both reading and science. Results like that show the pros and cons of adopting the Common Core standards. When looking at the results, Common Core seems to be working in two main subject areas; English and science. Also when looking at results, it shows that the use of Common Core mathematics is not necessarily helping, but is also not hurting. We fall just below the average line and with some tweaking, the math portion of the Common Core standards will achieve their main goal, which is to get students in the United States on the same learning level as students in other countries.
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