Common Core State Standards

Blog 2: Common Core State Standards

I am not sure what I think about the common core. I agree that all students deserve the best education. However I am not sure that holding every student to the same standard can be risky. On the flip side I think back to my education and think that it is at least a good idea in theory. When I was a student the standards were not nearly as stringent and it was easy to fall behind, or be way ahead and wait for students to catch up. There will always be students that have a greater knowledge in a subject than others and they get discouraged, and the other subjects suffer, it happened to me, I was really strong in reading and writing, but terrible at math and science, and there was no program set up to make sure that I got a healthy understanding of each core curriculum instead I was passed through and excelled in one subject and suffered in the other two and my education was and still does lack knowledge of the core subjects that students are supposed to learn today. So I guess I think it is a good thing for the students. I also think that it is good for the teachers as well, because it forces them to connect more with the students and have more of the knowledge that the students are learning. It also holds the teacher more accountable of making sure that no student is falling so far back that they will not be able to recover, it makes the whole classroom a learning environment, it makes the everyone in the room a teacher and everyone a student. And I think that is an important part of education, as a great direction that education is going and continues to go.