Common Core Outline

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A. Attention Getter: Common core is supposed to help students be prepared for college. But the reality behind common core is that it only hurts students. Some students unfortunately were taught through common core all the way from kinder through 12. Others were affected between those grades due to school changing to common core. As stated on TFP Student Action.com “common core is a socialist/progressive experiment that will impose an inflexible, one-size-fits-all, egalitarian education scheme on America’s children”. Common core only harms students and makes it difficult for students to succeed in math and English.
B. Audience Relevance: How many of you found it hard getting through High School math and English. I know I did. This may have
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Main point 1: First argument supporting your thesis
Common core stunts the growth of children through memorizing so teachers are successful through teaching to the test.
A. Sub point A: This shows that students only learn a portion of what is important in any topic. They are taught a narrow portion of a very broad topic. They aren’t learning to their full potential. They are only being taught a portion of what they should know.
B. Sub point B: This poses the question when does critical thinking come into play? Teaching to the test does not leave room for thinking. They sacrifice certain information to drill a specific topic that will be on a test. As a concerned teacher in Oakland, California Steven Weinberg said that “As students prepare for a test, they are encouraged to forego having students actually write compositions, in favor of practicing multiple choice test prep…understanding is sacrificed for coverage” (greatschools.org).
Transition (signpost, review, preview): Common Core does not level the education gap. It makes it wider.
III. Main point 2: Second argument supporting your thesis
Common core education should not be taught in schools because it puts education gaps between students in poor/rural areas and students who live a privileged
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Sub point A: Common core does not help students in rural/poor areas prepare for these tests. Students in areas that are privileged have the resources that they need to succeed on these tests. They are able to reach and score above average on common core tests. Paul Thomas states on State impact.com, “If you’re an African-American male student,” he said, “you are disproportionately likely to be excluded from advanced classes and you’re also likely to sit in classrooms with teachers that have no experience and possibly no certification. There’s absolutely nothing in Common Core that addresses any of those