...discuss the Common School Movement, Brown v. Board of Education, No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and Common Core State Standards Initiative. I will give a brief summary of each event and how they each impacted the history of education. [pic] The Reformers of the Common School Movement vision was that of schools being the cornerstones of the community. The schools were to be free and opened to everyone. They were to be the place where every student could come together on equal terms, where the high achiever and the low achiever could learn in the same class, use the same text books, and be taught by the same teachers. The common school would have a relationship with the community and its surroundings. They would be controlled, funded, and maintained by the people of the community who took interest and pride in their progress and accomplishments. Public schools today are controlled by the local government and the Federal government and not by the communities in which they are located. Standardized testing and the curriculum in public schools today are controlled by the state and how well a school performs in those areas are determined by the federal government. Local control is a thing of the pass and so is the Common School Movement (Baines & Foster, 2006). [pic] Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was one of the main events at the beginning of the Civil Rights Movements and helped to bring about changes in the desegregation of the public school system as...
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...Kungis Common Core “Common Core government agencies will gather and store all sorts of private information on every schoolchild into a longitudinal database from birth through all levels of schooling, plus giving government the right to share and exchange this nosy [sic] information with other government and private agencies, thus negating the federal law that now prohibits that. This is what CC is; a type of surveillance and control of individual.” (Schlafly, 2013) Con Side of Debate Summary As a nation, we have trusted our government to make changes to the citizens voting rights. Where is that now how much does our vote really count? In this case Common Core was not introduce to the public schools to vote as a standard curriculum. Meaning of common core is control of the school curriculum, i.e. control by Obama administration bureaucrats. Curriculum decisions will be replaced by the Federal curriculum decisions by state and local school boards, state legislatures, parents and even Congress because Obama bypassed congress by using $4 billion of Stimulus money to promote CC. I believe that this structure is all about the money, not about having the correct tools for teaching, instructing, and guiding the student. Currently, each state sets its own standards. This has led to a nation with 50 sets of inconsistent standards, even though the expectations of colleges and employers in math and English are nearly universal and are not bound by state lines. (Common Core State Standards...
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...¨Common Core, bad for you, bad for the world¨ Although Common Core sets a nationally based set of standards for public schools in the United States, I believe the expectations are unreasonable given that every state and school can better improve their own their own educational systems. All students have different strengths and weakness’ that should be focused on locally and itś also hard for the teachers to run their classrooms the way they feel is best for their students. Educational standards should be an issue left to the states to come up with on their own. As a student of the Arkansas Public School system, I see the struggles that our teachers go through on a daily basis that is caused by the implementation of the Common Core standards. According to the Core Standards website, Common Core is not the curriculum that is taught, but the way that students are taught. Many teachers begin their teaching careers in classrooms and are encouraged...
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...ISSUES WITH COMMON CORE STATE STANDARDS Christina Pugh ENG 122: English Composition II Prof Allison Sansbury June 22, 2015 Issues with Common Cores State Standards While Common Core State Standards (CCSS) improve test taking skills, the United States should remove them from their schools because parents are starting to blame teachers for failures, making classes larger due to failure increases, and they are starting to make children dislike school. Even though CCSS has been adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia, many believe that it will have little to no effect on student achievement while increasing the deficit for the states. An average school day now consists of prepping for state tests instead of learning about history, reading novels, or participating in different extracurricular actives. CCSS is taking the fun out of learning and making school become a job for our children. Common Core State Standards were implemented to help students to be college and/or career ready regardless of what state they live in. As stated in the article Understanding and Implementing the Common Core Vocabulary Standards in Kindergarten “the College and Career Readiness (CCR) anchor standards, the ‘backbone’ of the CCSS, describe the literacy skills all students need when they graduate. The grade-specific standards describe the literacy skills that all students need when they finish each grade and that correspond to the CCR anchor standards (p.264).” Students should face...
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...Common Core: A Pathway for Success Philipe Cannada ITT Technical Institute-Duluth Turn on your television, radio, or attend any political event and one of the main topics will most likely be a conversation about whether the Common Core State Standards are good or bad for our students. Every parent, educator, policy maker, researcher and citizens of the United States needs to join the debate of Common Core State Standards for the rights of our future: the children born and unborn of this great country. How can we call our country a world power with 20 or more countries performing better than the United States in mathematics since the early nineties? Why is there even a debate amongst these groups when based on the 2014 PDK/Gallup poll of the public’s attitudes toward the public school revealed that 58% of Americans said the curriculum used in their community’s schools needs to change (pdkintl.org, 2014). The same poll revealed that the public believes only 13% of high school graduates are ready for the world of work, and only 31% ready for college (pdkintl.org, 2014). With all of this why are we all not taking a stand for the Common Core State Standards? The Common Core State Standards for mathematics create a staircase where students can build upon their knowledge conceptually at a pace that will be standardized across the country. Every student regardless of socioeconomic status, demographics, or political background should have the same pathway for their education. For...
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...education as a state run exclusive right because of historical legacies and funding. In the article “Common Core Education Standards: Why they’re contested left and right;” Amanda Paulson describes the adverse reaction in which politicians and the general public have in regards to current education reform as a whole. The backlash is coming from both sides of the political spectrum. Among Republicans, supporting Common Core (aka “Obamacore”) has become particularly toxic,...
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...been a thorn in the side of educators, policy makers, and school boards for longer than the crusades. Every time it come up a solution is shot down before a majority of the public even knows that it was there. Until recently it was starting to feel like no one even cared enough to stand up for America’s youth and simultaneously the future of the country. 2009 put and abrupt end to that when 48 states, 2 territories and the District of Columbia signed a memorandum of agreement with the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers, committing to a state-led process; the Common Core State Standards Initiative. Finally it felt that the public’s decade’s long outcry for change was heard. As with any change there is resistance however and quite unexpectedly the uproar has caused certain states to question their involvement in the initiative. So while the public and its educators are in an uproar over education reform they are not happy with the chosen method of implementing common core state standards here in the United States. America needs this reform in order to remain a forerunner in the international standings a market where we have continued to fall, and while a majority scrambles for insight they should turn to the minority that has gotten it right the state of Michigan in particular who has made all of its recourses available for the remaining states to use for free. State education standards have been about since the 1990s. By the early 2000s, every...
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...The Complications within the Public School System California College San Diego ENG 101 Composition The Complications within the Public School System We as humans aren't standardized in our thought process so why are there curriculums? We send our young ones to school to set them up for their future. We invest time into our children whether it is at home or at a place where learning is the main objective. How much are we really getting out of the system if it is all standardized? It seems like the public school system is set up so that they push kids straight through without the proper materials or support they need to succeed. We need to focus on the student as a whole and not as a piece of the percentage. Lack of Funding Lack of funding affects the school public school system in many ways. Without the proper funding, the students do not get the proper books they need in order to participate in class. If a school doesn’t have enough money to buy the necessary amount of books, then kids are now sharing or using books with missing pages. In more well off school districts they don’t have those problems. In many American inner cities, there is a lack of funding in public schools resulting in the use of old, damaged textbooks and some teachers using personal funds to purchase new books. Pennsylvania is one state that has a history with a lack of funding issues. “Pennsylvania’s school districts were, and continue to be, highly dependent on the local wealth of their communities...
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...Common Core: Should the Government Participate in Education Standards? The Common Core Initiative is something that is very important to the growth of youth in the world of education. It provides a standardized education outline in hopes of making the United States a more intellectually competitive nation. Yet, while nearly all states have adopted this Initiative, there is little faith in its influence on the intelligence of the average student. There are many attributes and subtle nuances in the whole of the Common Core State Standards Initiative. This makes it difficult to say whether or not the education system is benefiting from this initiative. While Common Core set out to define when and what children should learn, was the change necessary and/or successful? Ever since people have been attempting to standardize education the question of “What is important?” has been asked. State education standards have been around since the early 1990s. By the early 2000s, every state had developed and adopted its own learning standards that specify what students in grades 3-8 and high school should be able to do. Every state also had its own definition of proficiency, which is the level at which a student is determined to be sufficiently educated at each grade level and upon graduation. This lack of standardization was one reason why states decided to develop the Common Core State Standards in 2009. America’s decreasing intelligence average became a public matter. Many people knew...
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...At About This Time tables, nations try to leverage arithmetic and reading skills by setting up new skills to acquire such three-digit numbers or reading 50 words per minute out loud. In addition to this important knowledge, countries are also to eager to provide children with moral values regarding how to be good citizens. Schooling methods and curriculum serve as foundations to convey nations’ beliefs, values and cultural standards. Educational curriculum varies by nation, by community, and by school subject. For instance, in the United States, curricula depends on when, how, and whether second-language or religious instructions occur. There is no educational unity in North America, which makes difficult to reach the reading, writing and mathematics standards. Moreover, there is another form of curriculum that has been popular among school districts: the hidden curriculum. According to the Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology, "Hidden curriculum is a concept used to describe the often unarticulated and unacknowledged things that students are taught in school." In other words, hidden curriculum refers to the unintended or implicit values cultivated in the practices exercised in the classroom and educational institutions through the application of the curriculum. For example, children are often rewarded not only for their academic achievements in one specific subject, but also based on their involvement in the teaching subject or their enthusiasm to learn. In this way education...
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...Education We’ve come a long way, baby! Over the past 100 years of public education in the great state of Alabama, changes in education have been literally fought for by blood, sweat and tears. However, with the desegregation issues from 1964 closed for the past 50 years, state legislatures still find plenty of arguments concerning public education reforms. Most of these arguments, though, are essentially concerns about federal control over state. Thanks to several federal acts, such as the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965 the students of Alabama schools are all getting a better education. Just by these two acts, eyes have been opened. A common interest of community stakeholders demands a higher standard of education for all students. These acts lead to major changes in Alabama schools such as anti-discrimination in schools, Common Core Standards and actually teaching evolution and climate change in Science classes! Anti-Discrimination in Schools If anybody knows anything about the Civil Rights Act of 1964, they should know that the state of Alabama fought hard to keep schools segregated. Even after the 1954 Supreme Court’s ruling of Brown v. Board Education of Topeka that was supposed to end school segregation, Alabama continued for the next ten years to keep schools segregated (Hall, J. para.8) The African-Americans fought hard for integration into better schools and acceptance in other aspects of Alabama white society. ...
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...Core Curriculum: Moving Forward What is core curriculum? A curriculum is a set of courses that students are required to take in a school. Curriculum could one of two things, the range of courses from which students have to take or a specific learning program. The core curricula are most often instituted at the primary and secondary level by the Department of Education. In the near future the entire US School System will be transitioning into the Common Core State Standards (CCSS). “The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are the latest iteration of this phenomenon and they will define the educational landscape in the United States for many years to come” (Gehsmann & Templeton, 2012). In 2009-10 states were given the option to adopt the new standards with the possibility of competitive funds from the federal government. While the transition to these new standards will not be easy, it will thrust education into a place it has never been before. “Implemented correctly, the common standards and assessments can vault education over the barrier of low-level test preparations and toward the goal of world-class learning outcomes for all students” (Conley, 2011). The standards will highlight two areas, English and mathematics. However, high school English standards are for reading, writing, speaking, and listening and intertwined with other subjects as well. The goals of these standards are to specify the knowledge and skills that teachers are suppose to assess and to raise the...
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...The Common Core Curriculum The common core curriculum is very touchy subject amongs law makers, teachers, and the public. Many believe it is nothing more than a way for federal government to take control of the education system. Supporters suggest that it will improve education nationwide by implementing uniform standards for all to meet and even surpass. While researching this subject I learned much about the intended purpose, the application, and desired outcome of this program. I also was able to acquire a further understanding of both the supporters’ views and the opposition’s thoughts. As I concluded my research I was then able to form a validated opinion of the common core program. The common core curriculum was designed to focus on a student’s critical thinking skills, problem solving ability, and analytical skills. The method presented to do this was to make a uniform set of guidelines and goals across the boards so that teachers could better measure progress. As of today 44 states out of 50 have adopted these standards and conducted standardized testing to check progress through the year. Kansas adopted the standard October 12, 2010. The program works to better prepare students for the high demands that will be found at the college level, therefore making more successful citizens to sustain our growing communities. The concept of this program was put together by the education commissioners and governors of the nation. They gathered the input of experts, school...
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...National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) research shows that low socioeconomic students who had art experiences in high school were ten percent more likely to complete a high school calculus course than low socioeconomic students with low arts exposure, which is 33 versus 23 percent. Students with access to the arts in high school were three times more likely than students who lacked those experiences to earn a bachelor's degree. When it comes to participating in extracurricular activities in high school, high-arts, low socioeconomic students are much more likely also to take part in intramural...
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...Question # 2 After doing my research online about various elementary schools, the one that I think will best met my five-year-old needs is a Montessori Charter School or a charter school that incorporates a Montessori curriculum. Charter schools are public, tuition-free schools that are open to all students. Charter schools are often operated independently from traditional school district. In addition, they provide high quality instructions from teachers who have the autonomy to design a classroom that fits her students’ needs(www.publiccharters.org). Montessori is a method of education that is based on self-directed activity, hands-on learning and collaborative play. In Montessori classrooms children make creative choices in their learning,...
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