Diane Ravitch explains in her article, "The Biggest Fallacy of the Common Core Standards," that 45 out of 50 states adopted the Common Core national standards. It has been said that the Common Core prepares students for careers and college. Ravitch's main question of her article was, "Why did 45 states agree to adopt the Common Core?" Was it because states could be eligible to compete for a fund issued by President Obama or because commercials have warned us that our economy will be in serious trouble if every school does not adopt the Common Core or because another report warned that our national security was at risk . Ravitch says all of this is completely nonsense. There has been no evidence to prove all of these claims. She goes on to explain statistics of how the Common Core test lowered test scores in New York. Ravitch believes that these standards are written in stone and no one knows who can revise them. Across the nation, schools are going to suffer because of harder testing and less money availability. The whole situation is a mystery.
Diane Ravitch's article about the Common Core Standards made everything a little more clear to me. I defiantly agree with everything she had to say in her article. Exactly why are almost all the states adopting the CCSS? The states may feel pressure too or immediately do it because of all the claims on the standards. I agree that the Common Core has not been out long enough to prove any of the claims being made about it. There has been no evidence besides the statistics that show test scores dropped in New York. This is a very scary thing to think about for our school systems. We do not know what we are working with and the potential for disaster could be near. Schools are already suffering from low budgets and adopting this into the school system will only put more money toward testing and not enough money toward essential school programs. The Common Core are serious standards to think about. From what I have read, there is potential that more children will drop out of high school or just not graduate because they were not college-ready or career-ready, which the Common Core states to hold true.
We really feel similarly on this matter. There is really too much uncertainty involved with the common core, and we have no idea what the fallout of this may be. It really looks like it was scrapped together and just thrown at the states. I just hope that it was done for the right reasons and not for financial benefit.
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