WHAT ARE STUDENTS BEING TAUGHT? The buzz word these days is Common Core. The Common Core State Standards establish benchmarks for student learning in math and reading. Forty-five states and the District of Columbia have adopted the standards, which critics decry as tantamount to a national curriculum. Supporters counter that the standards are necessary to ensure that high school graduates are ready for college or career. This is really sad. Students will not be ready for college if they only teach them Math and Reading. In order to be prepared for college they need more than that. They will need a foreign language to be competitive in a globalized world. They need notions of music, painting, the arts in general. How can a student who only knows Math and Reading compete with the rest of the college students in the world who are by far better prepared than students in the US?
Posted on: Mon, 02 Sep 2013 02:25:05 +0000
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