Pamela Williams knows a thing or two about education. After all, not only is she an instructional support specialist for grades 9-12 in Georgia's Appling County High School, but she was also named Georgia Teacher of the Year in 2011. As a result, she has an opinion on different education topics, such as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
To share her views on the CCSS, which Williams supports, the educator took to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution for her first column with the news outlet's Get Schooled blog. While resistance to the Common Core is building among certain Georgia lawmakers, Williams believes the state needs to stay on course, despite how challenging the transition may be.
"Common Core is a positive change that will benefit our children, but it can be tempting to ditch change when the work gets hard," Williams wrote. "Let's face it, what we have been doing in Georgia has not been working; on the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2011, our eighth graders only performed better than 10 states in reading, and better than only eight states in math. In both cases, we were below the national average."
While not everybody will agree with Williams, her opinion certainly matters. Williams is passionate about education and has more than 20 years of teaching experience, according to a press release from Walden University, where she earned a Doctor of Education.
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