Alpha-Phonics Blog Editor Note: In an attempt to summarize what Parents and Educators find wrong with Common Core we searched the Web and selected these 4 articles. They provide a good catalog of the reasons they feel Common Core is lacking.
# ONE:
Top Ten Things Parents Hate About Common Core
By Joy Pullmann
This is the year new national Common Core tests kick in, replacing state tests in most locales, courtesy of an eager Obama administration and the future generation’s tax dollars. It’s also the first year a majority of people interviewed tell pollsters they’ve actually heard of Common Core, four years after bureaucrats signed our kids onto this complete overhaul of U.S. education.
Common Core has impressed everyone from Bill Gates to U.S. Education Secretary Arne
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Duncan. So why do 62 percent of parents think it’s a bad idea? For one, they can count. But their kids can’t.
# TWO:
THE PROBLEMS WITH THE COMMON CORE
The trouble with the Common Core is not primarily what is in these standards or what’s been left out, although that’s certainly at issue. The bigger problem is the role the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are playing in the larger dynamics of current school reform and education politics.
Today everything about the Common Core, even the brand name—the Common Core StateStandards—is contested because these standards were created as an instrument of contested policy. They have become part of a larger political project to remake public education in ways that go well beyond slogans about making sure every student graduates “college and career ready,” however that may be defined this year. We’re talking about implementing new national standards and tests for every school and district in the country in the wake of dramatic changes in the national and state context for education reform. These changes include:
- A 10-year experiment in the use of federally mandated standards and tests called No Child Left Behind (NCLB) that has been almost universally acknowledged as a failure.
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# THREE:
5 Reasons the Common Core Is Ruining Childhood
The people behind the Common Core might think that they are ensuring 
college/career readiness, but what they are really ensuring is a generation of anxious robotic children who can memorize answers but don’t know how to think.
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My daughter has four tests this week. Week after week she has at least four tests, one of them a high-pressure timed math factor test. If she gets more than one answer wrong, she repeats the same test the following week (which, by the way, is a great way to start an unhealthy competition among classmates). Some weeks, if they happen to finish a unit in social studies, science, or math, they also have a unit test. So now we’re up to five.
# FOUR:
12 Reasons the Common Core is Bad for America’s Schools
It’s been eight years since the Common Core State Standards were unveiled and states began adopting them for use in their evaluation programs. The firestorm of controversy which initially greeted their introduction into American education from both sides of the political aisle seems to have died down somewhat and presently the Common Core appears to have been accepted as a part of the landscape in most of the nation, even as a handful of states that have not adopted it have
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