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What is Common Core Doing?
It’s time to face reality. Common core was a program of study designed to create people who were able to assimilate information on the most basic level. They were given enough knowledge to be able to read a text and do some basic math. However, the job market has changed. Companies require people who can analyze numbers and texts in order to take decisions. Yet the education system in place is still designed to produce face value comprehension skills. There is something really wrong in this approach. The Washington Post has pointed out that ever since common core was implemented, dropout rates have increased from 15% to 30%.  U.S. Secretary of Education John King himself has conceded that this system is designed such that 70% of students will fail. A Huffington Post article says, “In 2013, 39% of students were considered ready for college math and 38% were prepared for college-level reading. But in 2015, only 37% were prepared for college”. Why then are we keeping such a system in place?  We can see in Georgia, a common core state, that the highest graduation rate as of 2016 was 79.2%. However, in Virginia, which is not a common core state, has a startling overall graduation rate of 91.3%.


Strauss, Valerie. "Will Common Core double the high school dropout rate?" The Washington Post. WP Company, 04 Sept. 2014. Web. 15 July 2017.
Singer, Alan. "Results Are in: Common Core Fails Tests and Kids." The Huffington Post. TheHuffingtonPost.com, 02 May 2016. Web. 15 July 2017.
"​Georgia's graduation rate increases for fifth straight year." Communications. N.p., n.d. Web. 15 July 2017.

http://www.doe.virginia.gov/statistics_reports/graduation_completion/cohort_reports/
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