Ideology in My Controversy

        

Kosik, Joy. "Screenshots of D2L Content Page." 9/5/2015 via D2L. 

In this post I will be answering questions based on the screenshots above. 

1. Societies like the American Mathematical Society, interest groups like the 501c3 mentioned in an earlier post, teachers, parents, and students are all involved in this common core controversy. 

2. Major speakers include the creators of common core, schools, as well as mathematicians and teachers. However, general public and other scholars have also commented on common core and their beliefs. 

3. Societies and interest groups can influence politicians, while others (like people on social media) influence others in the general public (or the culture of American education). This issue is universal in that is affects so many people, so many are posting or writing about common core. 

4. Most of these writers or commenters use the standards themselves, other posters or papers, and articles. News is a widely used resource in this controversy, especially since it is so new. 

5. Some groups, such as societies and interest groups, value the methods and emphasis of common core. This is the same for parents, teachers, and pretty much everyone else out there. The values vary group to group, either for or against common core. 

6. Teachers and parents use personal experience as evidence, other groups use statistics, interviews, and research (most of the time) to prove their points. 

7. There has not been much talk about power between the groups, as there is so much variety with types of group. 

8. Both groups usually agree that there are some problems with common core. They disagree on what the problems are and how to fix them. 

9. Most do not acknowledge that common core is a voted on system, there is little mention of this in either argument. 

10. Most debate back and forth, especially on social media. This can be seen especially in the twitter feed from Louis C.K.'s tweet about common core.