The author of this article expresses great concern about the Common Core Standards Act. To validate her arguement she uses the No Child Left Behind Act as an example as to why this wont work. There is definitely a tone of frustration in this article, and definitely a level of concern. Similar to the previous article the topic of extremely low passing statistics are again brought up.
I believe this is a well written article because not only were her main arguements expressed but she also used supporting evidence very well. She explained how the NCLB (No child left behind) act looked to serve the same purpose and it failed miserably. Well now the same type of idea is being used again and this time the material is even harder for the students. It seems immpossible for everyone to except this new act but most of the states already have, because of their great fear of losing their funding. It's really sad because in the end of the day the kids are really the ones who are suffering. As an up ancoming teacher the Common Core Standards already somewhat intimidate me. I am just beginning my education core classes and the Common Core Standards have been mentioned in six out of six of my classes. I hope that all the predictions are not true, and the countries young students step up and achieve excellence, but this seems like a far fetched goal. I can almost gurantee this is just the beginning of the debate about this matter.
Jonathan, I totally agree with you. I am scared about the CCSS also. From the statistics and evidence the author used in this article, it makes me sad that students are going to be suffering from difficult testing. This debate will continue and it sucks that we will be starting our careers as teachers in the middle of it.
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