Questions About Controversy

In this blog post, I will start to brainstorm some questions regarding my controversy that I would like to answer in this upcoming project. This questions will help me to discover what I still need to clarify in order to make a complete argument myself.

My controversy that I will be making my own public argument is about Common Core. As I covered this topic in Project 1, I found it really interesting, and I am excited to learn more about it.

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WHO:

• Who is the leader program of the Common Core standards today?
• Who is writing the curriculum?
• Who is saying what about the standards, in terms of economic class?
• Who is responding more positively towards the standards, gifted or regular students?
• Who is in complete favor of the program, and who wishes to do away with it completely?

WHAT:

• What are the benefits that schools who have adopted the standards have seen?
• What are the Common Core test results?
• What are private and charter schools testing with?
• What are possible alternatives to Common Core?
• What specific states have transitioned over to the Common Core controversy?

WHEN:

• When were the Common Core standards first created?
• When was the Common Core first introduced into a school?
• When did states begin to back out of the program after they had already introduced it into their schools?
• When President Obama is no longer president, will the Common Core standards still be a major topic of society?
• When, and if, the Common Core standards are adopted into schools, what are the major consequences of the program?

WHERE:

• Where was the first school that adopted Common Core?
• Where has this controversy been most prevalent? Social media? Journalism?
• Where, in the United States, are test scores the highest? the lowest?
• Where does political ideology come into play in the controversy?
• Where do people give their opinion on the controversy most frequently?

HOW:

• How is Janet Napalitano involved in the controversy?
• How is the Department of Education involved?
• How is the government suggesting the use of such a standard? Is their method effective?
• How is Common Core going to affect alternative schooling, such as online or home-schooling?
• How do the Common Core standards compare to other previous standards?

--Jenny Bello