Common Core
I have heard mixed opinions about the use of common core in schools, so I thought I'd might as well bring it up with the Brilliant.org community.
What do you guys think? Is the Common Core helpful or restraining, and should it continue to be used in schools?
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Given I'm from Australia and have a passing familiarity of the American education system, am I right in assuming we are talking about the standardised testing process in America?
In that case, I am poised to say a few things. Firstly, I can understand the need for governments and organisations to tangibly measure students' performances, in the same way that teachers and schools use class tests, assignments and exams to tangibly measure a student's performance in class. In the mid-to-late 2000s, an ex-hedge fund manager by the name of Salman Khan showed how the traditional metrics were hindering many students who had "fallen through the cracks" despite having the potential to do well; he did this by creating a website called Khan Academy, where he enabled many classrooms to do the practising of mathematics inside rather than out of class, which caused a significant improvement in students' marks.
My point is that with all the online capabilities that we can execute these days traditional standardised testing just doesn't work anymore and, at the very least, a reform needs to be done. We also cannot neglect the burden that it has on teachers and students, increasing to their already-stressful workload, as well as the financial costs that are incurred by the taxpayer to fund such a project. Last I checked, USA spends $1.7bn to keep all this going; where I'm from, that's a lot of money to fork out on something that (on the whole) benefits nobody but educational GO's.
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