The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are designed to have a positive impact on the quality of students’ education. For this reason, West Virginia’s Raleigh County School District is slowing its transition to the CCSS, the Beckley Register-Herald reported, as there is concern it would not be seamless enough.
While the District has already begun to implement the Standards in its schools, the plan to transition first- through eighth-graders’ math curricula to the Common Core will no longer take place this fall, as it was originally intended.
"We had a segue in math that could potentially have caused a gap in child learning from algebra I to math II and we did not have enough answers from the curriculum experts to fill that gap," Kenny Moles, Raleigh County’s assistant superintendent, told the news source. "We want to be quick about implementing the State Standards, but not hurried."
Once the CCSS are fully implemented, students in the first through eighth grades will receive math instruction that is more robust, so that they are better prepared for high school, according to the Common Core’s website. By the time they enter the ninth grade, students will have a foundation in algebra, geometry, statistics and other mathematical concepts.
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