Thursday, November 17, 2016
Improving Education
When it comes to education students, educators, and people in general always have something to complain about or give advice on how to improve education. When educators try to improve the education system people always find a way to criticize it or find ways to make it seem bad. With the new Common Core standards in California many students and math teachers like to complain about how bad of an idea it is. The Common Core standards were created to get students to think more rather than memorizing things for their tests and not actually learning. It pushes students to think and elaborate more in school. Common Core was meant to improve education, but students dislike it because they have been trained to memorize instead of thinking. I think that we can agree that more people need to use their brains in society rather than be trained in memorizing. Rather than having negative comments about it we should understand that it is meant to improve education and society by producing a generation of thinkers and innovators.
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I agree with you that Common Core standards are a positive thing, it's just that students are not in favor of it because it's such a shift from previous learning techniques that they are used to. Common Core should be especially emphasized in social science classes, where it is essential to analyze historical events. However, I'm not too sure how to feel about the standards in mathematics.
ReplyDeleteI think that it is because students are so used to memorization rather than incorporating their own thoughts that they disapprove and dislike Common Core. And I agree that Common Core was created to improve education and should be viewed positively as it brings out creative thinking as well as original thoughts and ideas.
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