Eight problems with Common Core Standards

This article written by Marion Brady goes into great detail about what is wrong with the Common Core Standards in the United States. This veteran teacher, administrator, curriculum designer, and author does not hesitate one bit on speaking out on how the Common Core is not something that will work and that it was poorly created. She states that it was put together with insufficient feedback from qualified educators, that there wasn’t enough research done, and that they did not conduce experimental programs before switching to these standards. Brady makes a list of eight problems with the Common Core. Her eight beliefs against the common core are:

1)   The standards shouldn’t be attached to a specific subject in school.

2)   Since the future isn’t discernible, we shouldn’t make a static strategy because it will end in failure.

3)   Children need to know much more than what only what is covered by the traditional core subjects.

4)   The level of childhood poverty is being ignored and that is a main reason for poor student performance

5)   The Common Core allows for no innovation.

6)   The Common Core is set up with the thoughts of national standardized tests in mind.

7)   American values are not in synch with the idea of standardized minds.

8)   The Common Core is made with the thought of college and careers in mind, when the young people should be exploring humanness.