Educational Article: The Common Core standards are supposed to be about bigger ideas and fewer of them? from dangerously irrelevant

When examining the Educational Article: "The Common Core standards are supposed to be about bigger ideas and fewer of them?" from dangerously irrelevant

As the article ends "The effort to bring clarity and purpose to our educational system as a whole is important. But as every parent and teacher knows, over-controlling, micro-management results in lack of engagement and growth. Trust and simple, ongoing, predictable structure foster responsibility, engagement and optimal growth. Do we want a nation of highly trained children, or highly educated children?"

The final question is an important one - do we want specified checklists ensuring our students can accomplish a pre-determined set of objectives or do we want students to be able to read, write, and think critically and independently and problem solve the unknown that will arise? The concept and idea of education reform is important and is critical to have the conversation with all citizens.