Friday, July 11, 2014

The Virginia Common Core Implementation And Research Addresses The Declining Quality Of The Education System

By Coleen Torres


Lots of questions have been raised on the educational standards for the students in the USA. The Virginia Common Core State Standards is initiated by a committee to address these questions. It is the appropriate move and lot of effort has been put together to create this standard.

Mr. David Colman, the national system's architect, expressed his opinion in a gathering in Norfolk. He says that a research study all over the world shows that American students are taught too many subjects superficially. He suggested fewer, higher, and clearer standards.

The department of education in the State of Virginia is in the process of implementing this curriculum since the last 10 years. It is a significant move, and a lot is expected from students. Their fresh and innovative minds have the capability to accept challenging information. The course has already been accepted, and is incorporated by many schools.

A lot of parents complain that children are not taught basic grammar rules. However, assignments are assigned to explore different writing genres and style. It is difficult for a student to keep up with this type of assignment if he doesn't have any exposure on how to analyze sentence structure or different parts of speech.

Employers also criticize the mathematical skill of their employees. Parents feel that the use of calculators from early on makes children dependent on them too often for even simple calculations. They fail to understand the subject, and lose mathematical reasoning and analytical power.

This calls for the necessity of a uniform educational course. In addition to uniformity, the new course offers in-depth understanding, improved reasoning power, application to varieties of situations, and thorough processing skills. It creates a horizon for critical thinking that can be applied elsewhere.

The new mathematics course curriculum includes lot of in-depth understanding, thorough processing, well-thought of reasoning, and varieties of problem solving. It creates better scopes of critical thinking. Children are encouraged to apply their theoretical knowledge to varieties of situations, and round up their learning.

In order to implement the courses designed for the common core, parents' participation and encouragement is essential. In case they differ with the common core curriculum, they can participate in thorough discussion with the implementing authorities, or join the discussion forums. However, before coming to a method, they need to be up-to-date with the existing teaching practices and the pros and cons.

In order to contribute to the implementation of the curriculum, parents need to upgrade their knowledge on the topic from reliable sources. Well-thought comments will help make the course stronger, and their children will be benefitted. Stray comments or biased views will only deter the process of generating a competitive curriculum.

Most students find low key jobs at the end of their education. However, the need for a competitive curriculum is gaining more and more attention. The course should be at par, or beyond the level of the world standards to allow the students to gain proper respect for their knowledge.




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