Celetta Hunter

Individual Article Reflection

Education 324
Fall 2016
Article Name:CCSS:The Promise and the Peril in a National Palimpsest
Date:9/23/16

What is the article about? What challenge(s) or question(s) does it address?

Summary of the Article
The strengths and weaknesses of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS)
regarding English Language Arts are examined. The CCSS offers a strong vision of
the knowledge and skills needed by a college- and career-ready high school
graduate and the CCSS documents as a palimpsest, embedded with the debates on
the nature of effective curriculum and instruction in the English language arts.
Questions and ideas addressed are where the CCSS came from, what the CCSS
promises, the CCSS's strengths and weaknesses and how education professionals
could best respond to the challenges.
This article reminded me of
The literature that was created in the 80's when the federal government mandated
state run schools to find new ways of ensuring that students receive educations that
would help to raise our global rankings in academics after research showed that we
were no longer a competing leader in education in any discipline.

This article made me wonder if.

The United States will ever truly be academically competitive in K-12 education with
other countries, especially with the issue of what is viable constantly fluctuating as
a result of capitalism and bureaucracy. No one seems sure of what's best and/or
how to rescue or disenfranchised students.

The most important thing I want to share from this article

Foundational skills are highly important in shaping a student's future reading
comprehension and writing levels. The CCSS has not successfully found a way to
bridge foundational skills from K-5 into a developing skill level in both reading and
writing so that students are able to perform both equally by the time they reach
secondary education, creating a huge gap in post-secondary comprehension and
skill set.

Celetta Hunter
How will this article impact my teaching?
This article just supports my already existing speculation of the common core and
confirms that I need to reinforce the basics of reading and writing no matter how
trite it may seem to ensure that all of my students have a secure foundation in ELA
and search for ways to bridge the gap.

Name: Celetta Hunter