Rhetorical Analysis: The Trouble With Common Core

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Why would we be put more unnecessary stress and pressure on our students? After the failure of the No Child Left Behind Act (NCBA), the government rolls out Common Core: a new education reform introducing more challenging testing and teaching standards. Millions of students are already not meeting standards and failing, so why would they do this? In the editorial by Ethan Heitner The Trouble with Common Core: he asks a lot of same questions. In this editorial, the author, Ethan Heitner, tries to persuade readers that many states were coerced to adopting Common Core in their education standard with the use of grants. The other remaining states who, at first, did not want to switch to Common Core were threatened with the loss of federal funding