Common Core

    




  
            Although Common Core will never be mandated at our school, I believe it is important to be informed of what expectations are being placed on students across the country. If colleges use the common core to gage what knowledge students have, we need to be cognizant of what skills we are imparting on our students and make sure they are prepared for the next step, college. Reading the first two articles and not being overly informed on common core, I feel that the biggest issue that both sides can agree on is that there was not enough input from enough people and it was rushed.

            The question then is, if there was a due over could both sides come to an agreement? Other countries, such as Canada and Finland, have made it work by not penalizing or rewarding schools for the tests but using them as a tool to improve education. It seems that everyone wants to blame bad test scores on either the teacher, economics or flawed testing. If we believed our teachers were highly trained and funding was equal and many people had input into the tests, not predominantly people involved in the administration of the test, common core might not invoke so much fear and resentment. With such a bad taste in many people’s mouths over common core, and the fact that it is still moving forward, I am not sure any meaning full changes could make people accept it