Before the 2014-2015 academic year comes to a close, schools throughout Louisiana will implement the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), according to the state’s Department of Education. While local education officials believe the CCSS will be beneficial to students, they admit they will also provide a challenge.
John C. White, the Louisiana superintendent of education, told The News-Star that certain students will face challenges in the areas of mathematics and English language arts – the two subjects the Common Core are focused on. For instance, it may take elementary and middle school pupils who do not have a strong foundation in mathematical subjects, such as fractions, awhile before they adapt to their new curricula. Once the CCSS are fully implemented, elementary teachers will place a stronger focus on math basics.
In addition to fractions, K-5 students will receive a foundation in addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, whole numbers and decimals.
As for English classes, White believes middle and high school students will be especially challenged in the area of literacy.
"The complexity of the texts that our kids read now is going to really be upped and [in writing] it's going to…be analyzing and responding to a text using evidence in the text," White told the news source.
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