4- Amanda Ainsworth- Response to "The Biggest Fallacy of the Common Core Standards"

Diane Ravitch, in her article, "The Biggest Fallacy of the Common Core Standards", talks about how the Common Core standards are not a good idea. She says that the only reason most states opted to adopt these standards was because of the promise of money from the Obama Administration. She does not agree with the standards and says that they have nothing to do with getting a student ready for a career even though they are college and career readiness oriented standards. She also claims that, if anything, these standards are discouraging students from pursuing careers in areas such as science and math because and driving them to look at easier courses. She also talks about how the failure rate of these tests are very high and that most students are more likely to give than to try harder. She also talks about how much money it takes to implement the new testing procedures and says that this money could be better spent elsewhere.

I do not think that anything that destines students to fail, whether purposefully or not, should be implemented in our education system. Every student deserves a chance to thrive and succeed and anything that takes this chance away from them should be done away with. Students in one area or state may learn differently from those in another, so who are we to say that they should be given the exact same material and tested in the exact same way? Those that learn differently would just have the odds stacked against them. If these standards are really as bad as some people make them out to be, then I don't think they are such a good idea, either. However, I will gather my own research and make a decision for myself when i am more informed.