What are the Common Core Standards?

“The Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy (ELA). These learning goals outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade. The standards were created to ensure that all students graduate from high school with the skills and knowledge necessary to succeed in college, career, and life, regardless of where they live”. The standards recognize that both content and skills are important. How can someone disagree with the intentions of the common core standards? Its goal is that every student has access to quality education irrespective of where they live. I strongly believe that teachers need support not only from administrators but also from parents. As a parent I believe that it is our responsibility to make sure that our children make an effort to learn and behave properly in class. This way, teachers will spend less time managing their classrooms and as a result of it more time will be devoted to help the students reach the standards. I have observed high school classrooms where students are not willing to do the work and in addition to that some of them even disrupt the classroom quite often. My point is that unless parents, administrators, students and teachers are on the same page. It will be difficult but not impossible to accomplish what the common core state standards envision.