The Common Core's fundamental trouble article is an informative article on how people are viewing the Common Core coming into schools, who thinks it is a positive thing and who thinks of it in a negative manner. Although the author mentions why people think that Common Core will be a success in schools, his main focus is on the problems with the program. One of those main problems being that the No Child Left Behind reform was initially put in play in order to "help" children with test taking and have them practice grades 3-8. The fact of the matter is, all NCLB act did was make for a lot of failing schools. Common Core is basically just making these tests even harder for children which will eventually lead to many more failing schools and an incredible increase in drop out rates. The author basically has a fear, along with many others, that these test are going to be almost impossible to pass and the "failing" rate of students will increase dramatically.

I think that Valarie Strauss does a wonderful job of explaining the Common Core by starting off with a non biased opinion. She starts her article giving us good reasons that people have to be excited for this program coming into the school system. She very quickly moves on to the problems of it though, real problems. She talks about how it has not been tested properly and incorporates the NCLB act that was a failure when schools tried it. She also talks about how "extremely challenging" some of these tests were and says that even after being in school and receiving  many degrees, she still may not be able to pass it. This article gave a solid explanation of her opinion on this topic. She did a great job using supportive examples and facts as well.