Is Common Core Good for the District?

By Ralph Mechur

Common Core provides standards which must be covered in classrooms

Common Core focuses on deeper understanding of important standards and less on rote memorization of facts and formulas. Students need to develop critical thinking skills in order to learn increasingly complex subject matter as they move from primary school to middle school and high school. Students need to be able to understand and to be able to express how problems are solved. Skills learned in Common Core subjects can be used in other areas as well.

In language arts, Common Core requires that a substantial amount of reading is in scientific and history texts so that students learn to understand technical work as well as expressive writings.

Common Core will provide our students with the cognitive skills to be more successful learners who will be able to consistently acquire new skills in an ever-changing world.