Common Core Research Paper

There is a current issue in society that people don’t pay much attention to, but when they do they notice that this problem goes from facing-the-facts to in-your-face. This issue is as small as two words but comes to a really big matter, the common core. Shocker isn't it, and yes we have all heard complaints against it in the past and angry parents speaking out, but does anybody really focus their full attention on topic such as this, of course not. Most people say "at least they are getting an education" but last time I checked the definition of education comes from the Latin word educere, which means "leading out" the students into a wider world of knowledge, not having a them memorize what they are told. With the new common core kids and

teachers are now required to just read and memorize which is part of what makes it an issue. Why are we focused more on our tangled headphones, but not if a child out there is getting a good education.

When people bring up a discussion on issues in society you would hear stuff like, debts, equality, presidency, taxes, etc. but why not education or the common core and how instead of us "improving" education we are actually going backwards from where we once started. Teachers are now just reading out of a book and transferring that information to students to store in their brain for a test or a quiz, then one week later all that information is gone. Research has shown that students learn better and store information easier during class discussions rather than just copying bullet points down off a board for them to remember before a test. Society is losing the children rather than having them engage in what they are learning and providing them with content that actually interests them. Furthermore, the common core standards mainly focuses on the English Language Arts and mathematics and stem, and not much time the arts. In a Huffington Post article it states "New York City schools, for instance, saw an 84 percent decline in spending for arts supplies and equipment between 2006 and

2013. What’s worse, 20 percent of the schools do not have an arts teacher of any kind." This is to show how schools mostly focus their attention on stuff like how the Pythagorean theorem is going to help students in life, yeah okay, and those who aspire to be an artist, dancer, singer, etc. Just sit in the back of the class struggling with the rest of class. To add on, Common core supporters claim is the most pressing reason, they say that American school children are not prepared for the "twenty first century global economy". Yet the common core standards don’t even define what they mean by "twenty first century global economy", they just use it to scare parents and learners.

Or "college and career readiness", another slogan used by the Common Core to give a distorted view on education. The common core is a federal takeover on our education, they are basically in control where it’s the books written by the common core that’s teaching us and not the teachers, leaving them with so little control over their classrooms. The common core is not only bad for teachers but is also bad for all students because the common core is a one-size-fits-all that assumes every student learns the exact same way, a good education policy would meet all the students needs, learning styles, preferences, and paces. Not only that but the common core effects some states because they would have to move their standards backwards so that they would comply with the common core. Now I can sit here all day and list about 100 more problems but I would like yo state a last problem saying that the common core is bad for taxpayers and taxes are another society issue. The common core requires a big price that would be paid by taxpayers in those states so while taxpayers are paying all this money I myself self don’t see the education quality improving, so where is all that money

going. No kid wants to stand up to a bunch of grown ups who think they know what is best for us, well if they did then why are drop outs rates increased after the common core took place, and why do we have things such as opt outs when it comes to common core standardized tests? Do they really know what's best for us and our education or do they have nothing better to do than give tests that determine your knowledge based on an entire school year all crammed up in one test, taken in one day. Our brains are more than just a grade on a paper and all students should be taught how to think, not what to think. They don’t know what goes on behind our classroom door or our struggles behind a passing grade. It's time issues like these start getting more attention because "The children of today are the citizens of tomorrow".