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Website Links to Articles about Common Core
Through Oct. 15, 2013 – Collected by Vance Jochim ([email protected])
– Updates at www.tinyurl.com/HaltCommonCoreNow
Most recent articles are LAST - this version is 94 pages long
Common Core
The Ambitions of Bill and Melinda Gates: Controlling Population and Public Education | Crisis Magazine
Anti Common Core Face Book Pages Listed By State | Right Reason
Two Moms Against Common Core - YouTube
http://www.eagleforum.org/ publications/educate/apr13/ common-cores-political-agenda.h tml
FLORIDIANS AGAINST COMMON CORE EDUCATION - HOME
Central Florida Mom Explains Her Opposition To Common Core | StateImpact Florida
Common Core | StateImpact Florida
Are Common Core school standards right for Florida? | Joe Saunders | Florida Politics | Political Opinion | Florida Voices
Eight Senators Join Fight Against Common Core www.christianpost.com Eight U.S. senators, including Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, have signed onto Sen. Chuck Grassley's (R-Iowa) fight to defund the Common Core State Standard's Initiative.
Stop Common Core in Oregon: How Bill Gates and Rupert Murdoch are Data Mining Your Children
The Destructive Nature of Common Core - YouTube
Common Core Glenn Beck - YouTube
Common Core State Standards - An Introduction To Marxism 101 - YouTube
Obama trying to take over public education with ‘common core’ curriculum that teaches socialism... | RedFlagNews.com
Obama trying to take over public education with 'common core' curriculum that teaches socialism
AFT Calls for Moratorium on Common Core Consequences link.brightcove.com To fully realize the positive potential of Common Core State Standards, AFT president Randi Weingarten called for a moratorium on the stakes with assessments until the standards are properly implemented and field-tested. HIghlights from the speech.
Here's what kids will read under Common Core | The Daily Caller
COMMON CORE - Worms Milking the System www.flcommoncore.net Time and time again we find these “worms” slithering around in the name of “improving” the education of our children. Their latest attack on our children is coming under the name of Common...
Union Joins Opposition to Common Core National Standards and Tests
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Common Core Doesn’t Effect Curriculum? stopcommoncorenc.org Common Core supporters often respond to concerned parents by saying, “The standards are not curriculum! The state and local boards have freedom to determine the curriculum. There is nothing to worry about.” They may think this sounds reasonable, but ...
Common Core: Subversive Threat to Education - YouTube
Here's what kids will read under Common Core | The Daily Caller
Presentation by Utahns Against Common Core - YouTube
How do Finnish kids excel without rote learning and standardized testing? - The Globe and Mail
Californians United Against Common Core
Home - AMERICA.....DON'T FORGET!
Stop Common Core » Reclaiming Local Control in Education
Peg Luksik "Who Controls Our Children" How Public Schools Dumb Down Kids - YouTube
Common Core Townhall UNITEPA Peg Luksik Part II - Part I is E. McGroarty - YouTube
Math Education: An Inconvenient Truth - YouTube
Common core implementation remains uncertain in Pennsylvania watchdogwire.com This week, Pennsylvania Republicans in the Senate and the House were informed that Common Core Standards implementation would be delayed.
Texas Drops “Anti-American” CSCOPE Lessons; Battle Continues thenewamerican.com A highly controversial "progressive" school curriculum used in much of Texas known as CSCOPE was dealt a major blow by policymakers this week. by Alex Newman
Missouri Education Watchdog
Indoctrination in Common Core ELA Texts - YouTube
Interview with a Clinical Mental Health Therapist - YouTube
0:59 Common Core Parent/ Expert dialogue. by LuvDaGadgets 1,295 views
1:41 The Common Core State Standards; Developing World Class Students for the 21st Century by CTBAssessments 852 views
2:55 Common Core State Standards: A New Foundation for Student Success by TheHuntInstitute 110,597 views
Common Core Moms get Interviewed - YouTube
Challenges to equity in American public education - Talk by Linda Darling-Hammond - YouTube
14:45 Linda Darling-Hammond Debates Rick Hess 1of3 by Grantmakers for Education 1,311 views
9:18 Equity and Gender-Based Education: Elizabeth Wolfson at TEDxMileHighWomen by TEDxTalks 568 views
Teacher Resigns Via YouTube Over Standardized Testing
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It Begins… Communist Indoctrination Included in Common Core Literature for First Graders (Video) | The Gateway Pundit
Chicago Third Grader Aces Math Test: 9x9 = 'Hossa'
5-22-13 Community G+HOA 8p eastern – Topic Common Core | Around The Cabin
5-22-13 Community G+HOA 8p - YouTube
What Anti-Common Core Activism in Tennessee Portends pioneerinstitute.org Across the country, from Florida to Michigan, Colorado to Alabama, and many states in between, legislators and governors are taking steps to withdraw from Common Core. Nationally, US Senators Ted Cruz, Chuck Grassley, Rand Paul and others are working to de-fund it, citing federal law prohibiting the...
http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/educate/may13/push-against-common-core-gains-momentum.html www.eagleforum.org
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5-27-2013 ~ 'Common Core' Nationalizes & Dumbs Down P.S. Curriculum www.youtube.com Please rate and subscribe!!! 'Common Core' Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian...
Common Core State Standards attract controversy across U.S. | Deseret News
Q-and-A: Answers to common questions about the Common Core State Standards Initiative | Deseret News
The Dangers of Common Core to Liberty
Teachers' Union President: Halt All High Stakes Linked to Common Core blogs.edweek.org Randi Weingarten argues that no high-stakes decisions based on the common core should be made about students, teachers, or schools until adequate support has been provided.
Common Core | Pioneer Institute
Obamacore: The substitution of propaganda for great literature in our schools | Power Line
Common Core State Standards in English spark war over words - The Washington Post
Lawmakers, commissioner sow seeds to delay Common Core in Florida | Tampa Bay Times
Common Core Moms on "What Can I Do?" www.youtube.com Just because they call something "algebra" or "calculus" doesn't mean that's what it is. Before pulling my son out of school, what they were calling "algebra" was pre-algebra AT BEST. It will be interesting to see what they call "calculus", especially if "everyone" is doing it. The scarier thing is...
Eagle Forum Legislative Action Center
(1) Kansans Against Common Core
Backlash Against Common Core
Articles from the American Principles Project
RNC Resolution Against Common Core
Florida school lesson claims terrorists suffer from ‘low self-esteem’ |
Florida school lesson claims terrorists suffer from ‘low self-esteem’ - EAGnews.org :: Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary
Our Perspective - EAGnews.org :: Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary
Florida Common Core history class teaching Bible could ‘justify the slaughter’ and terrorists may have ‘low self-esteem’ - The Global Dispatch
Alabama Common Core Tests May Examine Kids’ Motivation, Behavior | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org As Alabama legislators tabled a bill to withdraw from Common Core national standards, its department of education is adopting related tests and attempting to convince legislators and voters to keep the Core.
http:// catholicschoolstandards.org/ common-core/ 78-tools-a-resources/ 123-additional-resource-link
Kirby Center Lecture Series Registration - Kirby Center kirbycenter.hillsdale.edu To attend a lecture in person, we invite you to join our live audience at the Kirby Center's location in Washington, D.C. Advance registration is required. Click Here to Attend in Person
Conference Call Tonight ~ Wednesday 8:30 pm CST: Topic- CSCOPE Where do we do from here?... us2.campaign-archive2.com
http://youtu.be/gEP7MBUnAo0
Common Core: The Trojan horse of education www.timesfreepress.com Many Tennesseans are unaware of Common Core, a troubling new set of federal education standards, because it was agreed upon without the consent, knowledge or involvement of parents and taxpayers.
"Common Core" Teaches Communism - Victoria Jackson
Common Core: The 'State-led' Myth - Parentalrights.org - Protecting Children by Empowering Parents
Polk County, FL Schools Conducted Iris Scans on Students Without Permission |
Michelle Malkin | Confirmed: Polk County, FL schools conducted iris scans on students without permission «
What is Common Core and why should I care? - WatchdogWire - Florida
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act
IS THE US DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION VIOLATING FEDERAL LAW BY DIRECTING STANDARDS, TESTS, AND CURRICULA? | Pioneer Institute
‘Do Not Pick Up the Pencil’: New York Parents Coach Kids to Refuse Common Core Tests | Video | TheBlaze.com
(16) From a recent email: As I read and talk to many... - Anderson County, TN Tea Party Patriots
Dumbing Down: Then And Now www.mindingthecampus.com This is the eighth-grade final exam from 1895 in Salina , Kansas , USA . It was taken from the original document on file at the Smokey Valley Genealogical Society and Library in Salina , KS , and reprinted by the Salina Journal.
Vampires, McKinsey & Co., and the Future of Public Education: It’s All Connected. educationalchemy.com There’s a telling scenario in the greatly under-appreciated cult vampire film classic called The Addiction. In it, the main character (soon to be vampire) named Kathleen in cornered in a dark alley...
Tea Party Revives to Fight Common Core www.nationalreview.com Today’s Washington Post has a front-page above-the-fold article on the battle that’s revitalizing the Tea Party: blocking the Common Core, the Obama administration’s push for a de facto national education system. The IRS scandal has surely helped to energize the Tea Party, but it’s the fight against...
The Beginning of Common Core's Trouble | The Weekly Standard
Michelle Malkin: Who's tracking your children? | WashingtonExaminer.com
The Beginning of Common Core's Trouble | The Weekly Standard
THE LATEST SMOKING GUN-- All in the family....... - Floridians Against Common Core Education
DOJ warns Muslim bashing on social media may be federal offense www.bizpacreview.com It’s come to this: The two top U.S. Department of Justice officials in Tennessee have organized a meeting to discuss the fact that not all American Muslims are terrorists and those who trash Muslims on social media may be violating civil rights.
School District Apologizes After Students Spied On
Does Great Literature Make Us Better People? - NYTimes.com
Florida teacher tells fourth-graders to give up constitutional rights, report says www.foxnews.com Report: Florida teacher tells fourth-graders to give up constitutional rights
Michelle Malkin: Eye Scans in FL Schools ‘Disturbing’ Sign of Larger Trend | Fox News Insider
Tea Party, Conservatives Protest Common Core as Federal Overreach, Threat to Homeschoolers www.christianpost.com As states and curriculum companies rush to fit new Common Core requirements, to take effect Jan. 1, 2014, Tea Party and conservative groups across the nation are rising to oppose the new federal educational standards.
Remove the gag order, free teachers! | Hoosiers Against Common Core
North Carolina Sixth Grader Refuses Common Core Tests | Heartlander Magazine
Opposition to Common Core standards defies political lines
Jeb Bush | StateImpact Florida
Educational Policy Institute
Home - Foundation for Excellence in Education
Truth. As in, you can't handle it. - Foundation for Excellence in Education
Questionable Quality of the Common Core English Language Arts Standards
Search | Goldwater Institute
Schoolhouse | Pioneer Institute
American Coalition 4 Property Rights
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Ron Paul TX Straight Talk, May 27, 2013: 'Common Core' Nationalizes & Dumbs-down Public School Curriculum! | Peace . Gold . Liberty
Common Core State Standards Initiative | Home
Florida Public Schools
Is Common Core in Texas? You bet it is~ Listen to Author Bill Ames soundcloud.com On the WomenOnTheWall.org radio show we were honored to have Author Bill Ames call into the show and share his 3 min. Testimony that he shared at t...
Crayola Common Core Lessons Promote Globalization and Interdependence ow.ly By Danette Clark Crayola joins the list of big name education companies who have sold out our children and America to the United Nations' global...
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About | Danette Clark
Schools, Districts & Organizations Indoctrinating in Your State | Danette Clark
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Education Week: Into the Common Core: One Classroom's Journey
Pineapplegate: Exclusive Memo Detailing the “Hare and the Pineapple” Passage | TIME.com
http:// whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/ 2013/01/02/ schools-are-sharing-private-inf ormation-via-slds-and-p-20-sta tefederal-systems/
http://blogs.edweek.org/ edweek/inside-school-research/ 2012/07/ ed_urges_states_to_make_data_s. html
GUEST COLUMN: Leading the Way on Common Core Standards | Free Enterprise
New book exposes how Bill Ayers has been using K-12 classrooms to continue his anti-America... eagnews.org Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary powered by Education Action Group Foundation
Edit Page - Lake County Fiscal Rangers | TypePad
Report: Homeschooling Growing Seven Times Faster than Public School Enrollment www.breitbart.com As dissatisfaction with the U.S. public school system grows, apparently so has the appeal of homeschooling. Educational researchers, in fact, are expecting a surge in the number of students educated at home by their parents over the next ten years, as more parents reject public schools.
This Letter About Corporate Involvement in Education Policy Should Go Viral | Diane Ravitch's blog
Obama Admin Announces: Common Core For Babies - Politichicks.tv :: Politichicks.tv
Americans Defy Government ‘Common Core’ School Intrusion - The Shark Tank
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Expert Highlights Dangers in Common Core Standards - Civitas Institute
Who In Their Right Minds On The “Right” Voted To Sell Our Kids To Common Core? Here’s The Who’s Who – Florida Tenth Amendment Center
Key Education Bill Includes Strong Defense of State Authority Over Education | Martha Roby - Representing Alabama’s Second District
Alabama Congresswoman Takes Aim at Common Core Standards | Martha Roby - Representing Alabama’s Second District
Alabama's common core fight makes its way to Congress | Martha Roby - Representing Alabama’s Second District
School Shuts Down Valedictorian Speech for Talking About Constitution - The Free Patriot freepatriot.org A High School valedictorian speech was cut off prematurely after a student commented on the bill of rights and the constitution.
Florida Parents Demand a Florida Pause Law to Stop Common Core State Standards by 2014-15 school... www.gopetition.com As a registered voter in the state of Florida, I, the undersigned, call on Governor Rick Scott and our Florida State Representatives to stop common core state standards before the 2014-15 school year by the creation of a Florida Pause...
UPDATE: Principal confirms that politically loaded school lesson part of Common Core -... eagnews.org Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary powered by Education Action Group Foundation
Classical public education coming to Florida: Teaching students how to think watchdogwire.com The Classical Academy of Sarasota (TCA) is currently in the application process with the Sarasota County School Board.
The How And What Of CEDARS Data Mining stopcommoncorenc.org Parents are witnessing their children being turned into guinea pigs by an untested set of standards by teachers who are just as frustrated with the lack of training and teaching latitude. Billed as a 'State-led' initiative promoting the highest standards ...
Rigor in the Classroom - YouTube
The Blaze TV Video Highlights : Battling Common Core - Video www.video.theblaze.com
TheBlaze.com: Video: Glenn Beck Program : Dangers of Common Core - Video
Common Core Lesson Plans - Rated very funny! commoncorelessonplantemplates.com - YouTube
FLORIDIANS AGAINST COMMON CORE EDUCATION - HOME
H.R. 5: The Student Success Act | Education & the Workforce Committee
Three-Minute Video Explaining the Common Core State Standards - YouTube
Tea party, teachers form an unlikely alliance www.washingtonpost.com As an educator and school counselor, I was pleasantly surprised to see on the front page “A new battle for the tea party” [May 31], outlining the tea party’s opposition to Common Core State Standards. Such important education issues are often pushed aside because of crisis or scandal.But with the ex...
Opinion: Schools fail when it comes to teaching history - NorthJersey.com
First Empirical Evidence: Common Core Hurts Kentucky Students www.nationalreview.com The New York Times published a wonderful op-ed by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreyfus acknowledging that Common Core is a radical experiment adopted with almost no public discussion and that it is fueling parents’ anxieties. They also note something I did not know: Kentucky adopted Common Core in 2010...
Common Core Information and Resources to Share from the Heartland Institute | Restore Oklahoma... www.restoreokpubliceducation.com Please, visit this webpage to download a copy of Heartland's "Tip Sheet". Heartland has authorized downloads and public use on this document so share widely. If you want to supplement the items produced by ROPE, please find this document very helpful!
Portland Schools Spend $500k to Deem PB&J Sandwiches Racist
Kids Who Move Across State Lines - Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com One of the arguments behind having centralized national standards, such as the Common Core
State Standards or Next Generation Science Standards, is the argument that kids who move from say Washington State should have the same standards if they move to Iowa. Since our culture has become more mobile...
Common Core’s Big Mistake: Messing with Moms www.humanevents.com Common Core will “finally shine a harsh light on the quality of suburban schools, shocking those families and voters into action.”
Education finance reform - buyer beware gazette.com This November, Colorado will be given the opportunity to vote for a more than $1 billion tax increase to fund Colorado education. This initiative will be sold to taxpayers as money for books, computers and better student/teacher ratios - all the necessities our kids need to have a better, more fulfi...
Include parents in standards debate: Opposing view www.usatoday.com Effort produces inferior educational standards.
APP's Emmett McGroarty Discusses Political Fight Over Common Core 6.11.2013 www.youtube.com Executive Director for APP's Preserve Innocence, Emmett McGroarty discusses the fight over Common Core on MSNBC's "The Daily Rundown"
APP's Emmett McGroarty Discusses Political Fight Over Common Core 6.11.2013 - YouTube
Common Core Letter
(2) Common Core Tests How are children are being “Dumbed down”
Op Ed: Professor Colorio of Massachusetts on Common Core whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com Shine light on Common Core By Donna Colorio Massachusetts Educator As I see it, our country is going through a major educational transformation and I ask myself, “Where are the parents?” In 2010, a...
(1) We're Not Misinformed; We Know What Common Core... - Restore Oklahoma Public Education
Rotten to the Core #2 - FLORIDIANS AGAINST COMMON CORE EDUCATION
Flat-out false.
skip a basic U.S. government course to graduate
de-emphasizing great literary works
“informational texts.”
no more academic value
pro-Obamacare opinion essay in The New Yorker
English professor Mary Grabar
“refrain from giving background context or substantial instructional guidance at the outset.”
Deconstructionism
Rotten to the Core #3 - FLORIDIANS AGAINST COMMON CORE EDUCATION
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Education Data Model (National Forum on Education Statistics). Strategies for building education software systems.
Elements
American Institutes for Research | Applying behavioral and social science research in education, education assessment, international development and health and work and training to enhance lives worldwide
http://www.futureofsexeducation.org/documents/josh-fose-standards-web.pdf www.futureofsexeducation.org
Common Core, Teacher Training, Linda Darling Hammond, Lev Vygotsky, Economic Planning | Stop the... stopalaskacommoncore.com This article describes the real Lev Vygotsky, and why Linda Darling Hammond relies on Vygotsky in teacher training. It isn't for learning.
California parents, taxpayers get ‘rowdy’ during Common Core community forum - EAGnews.org... eagnews.org Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary powered by Education Action Group Foundation
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State education influenced by corporations www.tulsaworld.com Read the documents showing the Oklahoma connections A new report sheds light on the influence of former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush's education foundation and its corporate ...
The Day - Transition to Common Core: Getting Ready, Part One | News from southeastern Connecticut www.theday.com OLD SAYBROOK - No more racing to get through every textbook chapter before the school year ends-lingering on key topics will be the new norm. The Common Core is here.
Alaska Succumbs whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com I used to think of Alaska as one of the hero holdouts, because that state, along with Texas, Virginia, others, once flatly rejected Common Core. I remember reading with a mixture of awe and envy, h...
Five People Wrote 'State-Led' Common Core | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org Many education leaders continue to insist the process for creating national education standards was “state-led,” referring to its incubation within two Washington DC-based nonprofits, the National Governors Association and Council of Chief State School Officers.
Don Gaetz/Will Weatherford column: Education a path to jobs www.tampabay.com Senate President Don Gaetz and House Speaker Will Weatherford are touring the state to tout their "Work Plan Florida" and today's Tampa Bay Times opinion page carried a joint column from the two. An excerpt:
http://www.ccsso.org/ News_and_Events/Press_Releases/ CCSSO_and_Aspen_Institute_Relea se_Paper_Examining_Strategies_ for_Integrating_Common_Core_an d_Teacher_Effectiveness.html
Obama’s “Mother of all Databases” Includes Our Children - Tea Party Nation
http://www.eagleforum.org/column/2009/sept09/09-09-11.html
http://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com/arne-duncan-exposes-the-real...
https://resweb.passkey.com/ Resweb.do?mode=welcome_gi_new&g roupID=1634616
Announcement for Common Core Protest Rally! conta.cc Ritz in Ballroom Salons 5 & 6 next door (on the same property as the Marriott) - 4012 Central Florida Parkway, Orlando, FL 32837
AMERICA'S NEW 'COMMON CORE' CURRICULUM IS BASED ON UNITED NATIONS GLOBALIST EDUCATION PROGRAM... www.libertynewsonline.com AMERICA'S NEW 'COMMON CORE' CURRICULUM IS BASED ON UNITED NATIONS GLOBALIST EDUCATION PROGRAM AND AGENDA 21
Governor Snyder signs budget - Stop Common Core in Michigan stopcommoncoreinmichigan.com Today, Governor Snyder signed the $49 billion which included a provision that blocks the implementation of Common Core and related assessments unless they are authorized by the legislature.
Common Core ‘Exemplars’: Graphic Sex and Praising Castro | FrontPage Magazine frontpagemag.com What the few remaining literary books on the national standards list will be teaching students.
https://ceds.ed.gov/pdf/ ceds-v3-data-model-guide.pdf
Who In Their Right Minds On The “Right” Voted To Sell Our Kids To Common Core? Here’s The Who’s... florida.tenthamendmentcenter.com Florida Tenth Amendment Center
Obama’s “Mother of all Databases” Includes Our Children
Americans turning against Common Core-related student database - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.
Common Core making it easier for activist teachers to bring politics into their classrooms - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.
Sol Stern and Joel Klein tell Common Core fairy tales
Lawmakers in Wisconsin, Michigan put the brakes on Common Core standards, at least for the moment
Will ‘alternative public school system’ be necessary to escape Common Core?
Search for "common core" - EAGnews.org powered by Education Action Group Foundation, Inc.
http://stopccssinnys.com/uploads/The_FACTSabout_CCSS_V4_-_No_Names.pdf www.stopccssinnys.com
David Coleman SDP Beyond the Numbers Convening - YouTube
Communication Team Conference Call ~ Wed. 8:30 pm CST: Topic- Connecting the Dots Tactics of the Left Common Core - Immigration - National Security
http:// www.thefloridacurrent.com/ article.cfm?id=33287191
Common Core State Standards Initiative | Myths vs. Facts
Here’s Why a Florida Hotel Says It Canceled the Reservation of an Anti-Common Core Group | TheBlaze.com
How Common Core Standards Work In The Incubator Lab Of Obama's 'Race To The Top' Schools -... freedomoutpost.com 9 mins ago by Anita B. Hoge How Common Core Standards Work In The Incubator Lab Of Obama’s ‘Race To The Top’ Schools 0The next several paragraphs teaches how to code standards and the objectives so that the Common Core Standards can be duplicated for computer retrieval. This also sets the stage for…
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Common Core ELA Informational Texts www.youtube.com http://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com - By high school, Common Core recommends 70% of reading is comprised of informational texts instead of literature. Her...
Common Core not a big topic for local school groups | CJOnline.com
Wyoming Against the Common Core | Bringing the TRUTH to parents, educators, and communities. Keeping Wyoming's LOCAL voice RELEVANT!
Resources | Wyoming Against the Common Core
Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers | PARCC
Second Florida hotel cancels anti-Common Core conference - WatchdogWire - Florida
Common Core State Standards: What’s it all about? www.edmondsun.com More than 100 people gathered Tuesday evening in an open forum at the Downtown Community Center to hear speakers sharing thoughts on the Common Core
http:// www.palmbeachschools.org/ Community/BoardVideo.asp
Exit Strategy: State Lawmakers Consider Dropping Common Core www.edweek.org Track the development of various state legislations seeking withdrawal from the Common Core State Standards. You can also find a short synopsis and a timeline of recent actions for each bill below.
Central Florida "Florida Parents Against Common Core" (FPACC)
Data Mining In Common Core - TheBlazeTV - The Glenn Beck Program - 2013.03.27 - YouTube
Florida Stop Common Core Coalition www.flstopcccoalition.org Florida Stop Common Core Coalition was created to slow down implementation of Common Core in Florida until we have more information on what will be taught and how much it will cost.
Common Core a sore subject for protesters www.yoursun.com SUN PHOTO BY ADAM KREGERHarvey and Donna Elliott attended a Charlotte County School Board training session Thursday regarding the implementation of the Common Core State Standards. The workshop was open to the public, and about 20 showed up early to hold signs and hand out information sheets about w...
Missouri Education Watchdog: Does this Explain Why the Republican Establishment Supports Common Core?
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Missouri Education Watchdog: Why Believe The Lies of Common Core www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
Missouri Education Watchdog: Pushback on Common Core Grows www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
Missouri Coalition Against Common Core
Unravelled! The 30 Year Agenda Behind Common Core danetteclark.wordpress.com Obama + Ayers + $50 million = Common Core By Danette Clark The Annenberg Institute, the Coalition of Essential Schools, Bill Ayers, and President Obama are the architects and the driving force behi...
Ron Paul's Texas Straight Talk 5-27-2013 ~ 'Common Core' Nationalizes & Dumbs Down P.S. Curriculum www.youtube.com Please rate and subscribe!!! 'Common Core' Nationalizes and Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian...
(2) Nevada Parents & Teachers STOP Common Core
What is Common Core and What it is not ~ States Across America are beginning to ask the questions…. tinyurl.com What is Common Core and What it is not ~ Common Core is a complete transformation of Education in the United States led by the federal Department of Education and the corporate education busi
Under the Common Core, we face one-size-fits-all education. tinyurl.com What happens when a child refuses to take the Common Core assessment(s)? They go into an IEP
Common Core has the IEP, the individual education plan. www.saveamericafoundation.com Common Core: IEPs (Individual Education Plans) rake in big bucks for our financially strapped public school districts.
CCSD officials facing state ethics investigation - www.ktnv.com bit.ly Clark County's school board president and an associate superintendent are facing a state ethics investigation.
Attention Florida Parents: Join the fight and... - Parent LED reform
Common Core and Special Education, Part 1 youtu.be Learn more about what changes the new Common Core State Standards will bring to your classroom.
Common Core and Special Education, Part 1 - YouTube
Webinar: Common Core and Special Ed - YouTube
Conejo Valley Common Core Forum - June 10, 2013 - YouTube
Wow-Wow! Sparks Fly at First-Ever California Common Core Forum, in Thousand Oaks - venturacountyteaparty
Phil Daro at CMC-North Ignite www.youtube.com Phil Daro gives a talk about the Common Core Standards at Key Curriculum Press' Ignite event at the CMC-North Asilomar conference.
Common Core : conservative to the core
National Sexuality Education Standards - Core Content and Skills, K-12 ~ South Dakotans Against... www.sdagainstcommoncore.com I recently typed up a blog post about the dumbing down of the Saxon Math curriculum. The whole education establishment needs to be privatized and divorced from Federal Money: http://jennyhatch.com/2013/04/30/uncommon-lore-the-original-saxon-math-curriculum-math-a-firm-foundation-to-build-a-homeschoo...
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N.C. official releases a video explaining his concerns about Common Core - EAGnews.org powered... eagnews.org Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary powered by Education Action Group Foundation
Public Forum on Common Core Standards - Tavares, FL - June 27th
Obama Wants to Eliminate All Education that Does not Support the State politicaloutcast.com Obama wants to eliminate all ideological competition and that includes education that does not support an ever growing State.
Common Core : Homeschoolers Face New Questions on College Admissions
“The Alignment of Common Core and ACT’s College and Career Readiness System,”
Ga. GOP Leaders Vote to Withdraw from Common Core
DesJarlais: ' Common Core ' standards 'watered down,' 'uncompetitive'
Can America Find Common Ground Against Common Core? - By WR Scott whotookmylightbulb.com Can Americans find common ground against Common Core? I think the answer is an emphatic YES and, in fact, I think we already have.As a country, we‘ve been trapped in a space in time where it seems...
Your State's Progress | Data Quality Campaign www.dataqualitycampaign.org The DQC is a national, collaborative effort to improve the availability and use of high-quality education data to improve student achievement.
6-20-13 Common Core: A bad apple, say opposers
Protesters urge West Haven to resist implementing common core curriculum in ...
Focus on People, Not Technology for Common - Core Implementation?
Race to the Trough: Common Core Conundrum Part 1
Cape school board debates Common Core
Protestors urge West Haven to resist implementing common core curriculum in ...
Teachers Prepping for Common Core Implementation | Sunshine State News
Common Core: Extraordinary Solution to All-Too-Common Problem | Sunshine State News
Obama’s Pre-K Power Grab www.rightsidenews.com President Obama intends to place preschoolers' education under government control, away from parents, in the furthering of indoctrinating the American people.
Harford Executive and Gubernatorial Candidate Craig: Adopting Common Core ...
Arne Duncan To Defend Common Core , Call Tea Party Critiques 'Outlandish'
Summer school for parents: Find out what's in Common Core
Common Core foes spreading misinformation, Duncan says
Restore Oklahoma Public Education: Oklahoma State Department of Education Denies Public Comment... restoreoklahomapubliceducation.blogspot.com
Indiana Pulling Away From PARCC stopcommoncoreillinois.org Truth in American Education - by Shane Vander Hart Indiana is reducing its participation with PARCC. State Impact Indiana reports: As a governing state in the Partnership for Assessment of Readines...
The Danger Of Common Core - TheBlazeTV - The Glenn Beck Radio Program - 2013.03.15 www.youtube.com Glenn goes over the dangers of Common Core and how it is indoctrinating kids with an extreme left wing ideology. This brief video clip has been uploaded, and...
"Why Should I Be Concerned? It Doesn't Affect ME!" lifeinthelastfrontier.wordpress.com The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) initiative has been around since 2009. I've been keeping my eyes on it and following it for quite some time now, all the while warning and informing our local...
#CommonCore: The Joke's On Us: 20 U.S.C. § 3403 : US Code - Section 3403: Relationship with States conservativeteachersofamerica.com by Gretchen Logue of Missouri Education Watchdog Neal McCluskey writes how the Federal Government seems to be directing testing in the Common Core consortia. From Saying Common Core Not Federal a ...
Common Core Opponents Expecting Protesters From Across The State stateimpact.npr.org A group organizing a protest Saturday at an Orlando conference for new common education standards is expecting caravans of protesters from around the state and country will join them. Florida Parents Against Common Core expects groups from Southwest Florida, Port St. Lucie, West Palm, Georgia, Tenne...
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Common Core Study Bill HB 718 Call To Action www.icontact-archive.com As many of you know, Representative Larry G. Pittman introduced a Common Core Study bill(HOUSE BILL 733 Short Title: Common Core Standards Study) during this session which was rolled into a larger study bill now identified as HB 718 (HOUSE BILL 718 Short Title: Study Issues in Education.) It has pas...
Why Common Core’s Math Standards Don’t Measure Up (by Guest Blogger Ze’ev Wurman) pioneerinstitute.org Guest Post by Ze’ev Wurman (biography below) Last year William Schmidt and Richard Houang published a paper in the Educational Researcher that claimed to have explored the coherence of the Common Core state standards in mathematics (CCSSM) and their similarity to those of other high achieving natio...
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House News Conference on Common Core www.youtube.com Rep. Will Tallman participates in a news conference on legislation introduced to combat the implementation of Common Core education standards in Pennsylvania.
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The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America www.thelibertybeacon.com By: Sam Blumenfeld Charlotte Iserbyt has put her great exposé of the dumbing-down agenda of American education on the Internet, so that anyone can now read it and download it free of charge. The De...
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Ron Paul: ‘Common Core’ Nationalizes And Dumbs Down Public School Curriculum libertycrier.com In addition to shredding civil liberties, launching a utopian global war for democracy, and going on a spending spree that would make LBJ blush, the so-called “conservative” Bush administration dramatically increased federal control over education via the “No Child Left Behind” act. During my time i...
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Tax-Sponsored Common Core Meetings Closed to Public | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org Though 46 states will spend an estimated $5 to $12 billion to implement a new set of national education standards called the Common Core, public officials are arranging these standards in hundreds of closed-door meetings.
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State pulling out of consortium, to develop own standardized tests www.tulsaworld.com State Superintendent Janet Barresi announced Monday that she is withdrawing Oklahoma from a testing consortium of 20 or so other states to coincide with the new Common ...
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Diamond Releases List of Common Core Graphic Novels at ALA www.publishersweekly.com Compiled from works produced by its publisher-clients, Diamond Book Distributors has released The Diamond Graphic Novel Common Core List, a collection of 101 graphic novels arranged by grade level that will satisfy the Common Core curriculum.
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Report: 46 States to Limit Classic Literature in Schools | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org Common Core language arts standards reduce the amount of classic literature students in 46 states will read for school, with potentially destructive consequences for students’ future college study and careers, concludes a new report from the Pioneer Institute.
What the George Zimmerman Trial and Cursive Have in Common stopcommoncoreillinois.org FOX 10 WDTV Clarksburg - During the George Zimmerman trial, when a witness was asked to read a letter in court, she wasn't able to. The reason? She said she didn't know how to read cursive. Because...
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Rebuttal to Senator John Legg's Pro-Common Core Column www.flstopcccoalition.org Senator John Legg, chairman of the Senate Education Policy Committee, despite authoring a very good bill just signed into law that requires ALL districts to have adequate and independently verified technology before the online Common Core tests can be given, wrote a very pro-Common Core column .....
Six Ways the Common Core is Good For Students | NEA Today neatoday.org By Cindy Long As the Common Core debate heats up, we’ve heard a lot from policy makers, politicians, and even TV talk show hosts about the challenges posed
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Common Core Standards = No Child Left Behind on Steroids jonathanturley.org Respectfully submitted by Lawrence E. Rafferty (rafflaw)-Guest Blogger We have all heard the stories about the federal education policy instituted under the George W. Bush administration referred t...
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Stop the rush to the Common Core www.nydailynews.com McClusky, Evers and Stotsky: The Common Core — effectively national math and English curriculum standards coming soon to a school near you — is supposed to be a new, higher bar that will take the United States from thee academic doldrums to international dominance.
Sarah Palin Attacks Melissa Harris-Perry www.huffingtonpost.com It seems as though Melissa Harris-Perry has irked Sarah Palin and multiple members of the conservative media (see update below). In her new "Lean Forward" ad, the MSNBC host argues that the U.S. should invest more in public education.
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Biosensors to monitor U.S. students' attentiveness mobile.reuters.com DENVER (Reuters) - The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has poured more than $4 billion into efforts to transform public education in the U.S., is pushing to develop an "engagement pedometer." Biometric devices wrapped around the wrists of students would identify which classroom moments excite...
The Common Core and National Security www.huffingtonpost.com One consequence of the Common Core is that students may not be as prepared to imagine threats to national security as well as how to make peace with peoples around the globe.
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Florida Middle School students reading child pornography watchdogwire.com There is no state or district list of approved novels.
Stop the Rush to the Common Core www.cato.org The growing backlash against coast-to-coast standards is perfectly justified.
Get some green shoe laces... - GoPublicSchool.com www.gopublicschool.com Get some green shoe laces to show support for this new anti-testing movement! Lace to the Top was started by two dads (who are teachers) and wanted to make the concerns about testing expressed on Facebook groups and teacher lounges visible to everyone... Lace to the Top is a bottom-up action for eve...
LETTER: Common Core a tool of govt. indoctrination www.cecildaily.com Common Core is a set of national education standards for English and math classes developed by private Washington,
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Fact Checking the Bush Foundations' Rebuttals www.flstopcccoalition.org Former governor Jeb Bush's two foundations, The Foundation for Florida's Future and the Foundation for Excellence in Education, are constantly putting out rebuttals or their version of
Tennessee Parents and Teachers Use Social Media to Lambaste Kevin Huffman dianeravitch.net This from a reader in Tennessee. Be sure to open the links and see the hilarious cartoons: "This week, two separate Fire Kevin Huffman FB pages went up: 1. https://www.facebook.com/RemoveKevinHuffm...
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Can Our Unions Praise Common Core Standards and Defeat High Stakes Tests? blogs.edweek.org If we embrace the Common Core, and position ourselves as expert implementers, we cannot help but legitimize these standards as a solid set of benchmarks for student performance.
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More Than One Fatal Flaw in Common Core’s ELA Standards (by Sandra Stotsky) pioneerinstitute.org There isn’t just one fatal flaw in Common Core’s English language arts standards: its arbitrary division of reading standards into two groups: 10 standards for “informational” text and 9 for “literature” at all grade levels from K to 12. Based on these numbers, school administrators have told Englis...
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Atheism, Darwinism, and Environmentalism in a Lab Coat www.rightsidenews.com E. Calvin Beisner shows how to fight back on the Next General Science Standards being promoted in public schools espousing enironmentalist activism and Darwinian beliefs.
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Pulling Back the Curtain on Common Core www.theblaze.com Common Core’s national K-12 standards, in English language arts (ELA) and math, supposedly emerged from a state-led
process in which experts, educators, and parents were well represented. But the people who wrote the standards did not represent the most important stakeholders. Nor were they qualifie...
Texas Ends CSCOPE (school curriculum promoting Islam) www.youtube.com With your help, our social media campaign was able to reach 100's of thousands and expose the CSCOPE curriculum. It required students to study the Qurʼan and...
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TIMSS Implications for U.S. Education | Chris Tienken christienken.com Christopher Tienken, Ed.D. is an assistant professor of Education Administration at Seton Hall University in the College of Education and Human Services, Department of Education Management, Policy, and Leadership. He has public school administration experience as a PK-12 assistant superintendent, mi...
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Quality Counts 2013 - State Report Cards www.edweek.org This interactive map offers a quick way to examine State-by-State grades and summary data. The breakdown includes Chance for Success, K-12 Achievement and other indicators.
Will state longitudinal data systems collect data beyond what is called for in legislation? |... advocacy.anissawardell.com The ability to share data from preschool through post-secondary education data systems.
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Florida Board of Education approves race-based academic goals thegrio.com theGRIO REPORT - The Florida Board of Education has been met with opposition for approving a strategic plan this week that will categorize students' academic performance based on race and ethnicity...
GED Test Shifts to Fit Common Core stopcommoncoreillinois.org Heartland Institute - On January 2, 2014, the current GED test will be replaced by a new version fully aligned with Common Core national K-12 benchmarks that costs nearly twice as much and will onl...
Protecting Educational Freedom This Independence Day: Cracks in the Common Core www.rightsidenews.com Our country is founded and based upon liberty and Americans must be free to choose where their children go to school
CC Copyright Misuse - Making the Common Core Practical commoncorestandards.com Common Core sets a new copyright precedent--a privately copyrighted document is now a public policy document. Never done before, local changes are impossible.
Reclaiming Education Freedom: The Fight to Stop Common Core National Standards and Tests m.youtube.com Lindsey Burke of The Heritage Foundation and Joy Pullmann of The Heartland Institute discuss the fight to stop Common Core national standards and tests.
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NFL Adopts Common Core Playbook--Copying Education Reforms | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com NFL Adopts Common Core Playbook–Copying Education Reforms by John J. Viall (Washington, D. C.) In a surprise news conference today U. S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and National Football League Commissioner Roger Goodell announced plans to improve NFL performance in coming seasons. Unlike new...
1895 8th grade exam show drop in educational standards | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org The 1895 Salina Kansas 8th grade final exam show how low America's educational standards have become in 2013. Few kids could pass any section today.
Common Core State Standards: A lesson in shrewd marketing www.ajc.com University of Georgia professor Peter Smagorinsky is a frequent contributor to the Get Schooled blog.
Video: Heritage Foundation and Heartland Institute Speak Out Against Common Core whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com Joy Pullman of Heartland Institute and Lindsey Burke of Heritage Foundation give one of the most articulate, compelling presentations about Common Core that I've seen. These speakers are rock stars...
Common Core: The Good, the Bad and the Downright Frightening - Politichicks.tv politichicks.tv The controversy around the Common Core has been growing. Unless you’ve been living under a rock you might have heard something about this incredibly experimental
School Psychologist: The biggest obstacle to "learning how to learn" is high stakes testing. teachersletterstobillgates.com Dear Bill and Melinda, As a School Psychologist, I love nothing more than good data. After thirteen years on the job, I still get a thrill every time I score a cognitive or academic test. There is ...
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Private school voucher program growing rapidly, report shows www.news-press.com The state's voucher-like system that allows students to attend private schools experienced record enrollment growth in the 2012-13 school year, according to a state report, and a spokesman said the program expects to add even more students for the upcoming year.
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kitchen table math, the sequel: Why students have to memorize things - revised kitchentablemath.blogspot.com I'm interested to hear your perception of an anti-knowledge uptick, as I have definitely seen a trend the other way. Mind you, my observations are local and specific, but they do spring from observations of implementing ideas from Elmore, Hattie and others.Where we get into extended discussion -- wi...
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Reform Math is Deformed Math www.rightsidenews.com Reform Math, the math curricula used in most public schools, is absurdly difficult and counter-intuitive. Children mainly learn that they hate math. A shortage of high-tech workers is inevitable.
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Three Questions For Orange County Superintendent On Common Core stateimpact.npr.org When Gov. Rick Scott gave his State of the State speech this week, he made a point of recognizing educators who “help make dreams come true for the next generation.” He singled out Orange County Superintendent Barbara Jenkins, who was in the House Chambers as the governor’s guest. “Barbara, will you...
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Guest Column: The outing of Common Core Standards (Part 2) explorernews.com Two individuals who were members of the Common Core validation committees refused to endorse the standards. Dr. Jim Milgram, Stanford University, was the only professional mathematician and expert on content on the review committee. He has a background in writing standards and evaluating internatio...
The Common Core Nightmare That Awaits Us | FreedomWorks www.freedomworks.org FreedomWorks is a grassroots service center dedicated to helping activists fight for lower taxes, less government, and more freedom.
Common Core Tests Too Pricey? www.gpb.org National tests being created for the Common Core educational standards could cost Georgia more than its current budget of $25 million for all types of assessments. A spokeswoman for Gov. Nathan Deal, says he is exploring options because of concerns about the cost of the assessments.
Take education back from the feds | Superior Telegram | Superior, Wisconsin www.superiortelegram.com “Common Core: conservative to the core” is one of many articles Chester E. Finn Jr., has penned encouraging conservatives to embrace Common Core State Standards. Unfortunately, Finn never discloses that his “conservative” Thomas B. Fordham Institute has accepted nearly a million dollars from the Bil...
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Issues with Florida SB 878 – Common Core Linked Data Warehouse Bill « edlibertywatch.org edlibertywatch.org Executive Summary – SB 878 is a huge danger to the data privacy of Florida’s children and their families for the following reasons:
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On Common Core, Principals Told to Let Go and Embrace Tech blogs.edweek.org Alan November told the National Association of Elementary School Principals that embracing technology means difficult changes, but is key to succeeding in the Common Core era.
Union Greed Goes Well With the CCS! truthabouteducation.wordpress.com “When school children start paying union dues, that’s when I’ll start - representing the interests of school children,” American Federation of Teachers (AFT) founder Al Shanker once told a rollicki...
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Janet Barresi generating headlines statewide newsok.com The education world in Oklahoma has been irked with State Superintendent of Schools Janet Barresi lately. Recently, Barresi announced the state would pull out of the PARCC testing consortium. (If you need a refresher, read my story here about how Oklahoma will not test with the Partnership for Asses...
Penn. to Consider Common Core Repeal | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org Pennsylvania will revert to its state tests rather than use national Common Core tests, according to Pennsylvania Department of Education spokesman Tim Eller.
PA residents oppose Common Core education standards articles.mcall.com HARRISBURG — For many, Bill Gates is the glasses-wearing businessman who has used his wealth as co-founder of Microsoft to help improve society.For a growing number of people, however, he is a...
Iris scans are the new school IDs money.cnn.com A growing number of schools are replacing traditional identification cards with iris scanners.
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Nebraska Joins States Trying to Link Student Data Systems blogs.edweek.org Nebraska became the 14th state to join the Ed-Fi Alliance and will work to create "dashboards" designed to give educators real-time access to student data.
Indoctrination in Common Core ELA Texts www.youtube.com http://www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com - Have you heard the notion that Common Core standards don't indoctrinate? Well they don't. It's the curriculum that i...
The Truth Behind ‘the Truth’ About Common Core | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org I’m calling for a hogwash alert on the recent National Review Online article about Common Core. It’s written without any links or references for its Common Core-promoting claims, and it’s written by two authors whose employers are largely funded by the main funder of all things Common Core: The Bill...
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Feds Shake Down Farmer for Free Raisins www.breitbart.com A California raisin farmer is facing bankruptcy for defying a law requiring him to give the government a portion of his raisin crop without compensation. According to a Washington Post report, Marvin Horne, 68, stopped giving the government his raisins in 2002 and now "owes the U.S. government at le...
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How mad are some teachers? This mad | The Answer Sheet – The Washington Post www.networkforpubliceducation.org Educators who are sick and tired of being blamed for whatever woes exist in the public education system have banded together in a group named to show their disgust and defiance: the Badass Teachers Association.
Common Core: Teaching to the New Test- Part III | SFPPR news.sfppr.org Common Core replaces individual excellence with collectivism. The rigorous debates between two individuals or two teams are replaced by consensus-building in “democratic” discussions in groups. Short in-class Internet research projects of less than two hours replace the in-depth research papers writ...
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Common Core Presentation in New York - Gilbert Watch www.gilbertwatch.com This Common Core presentation was given on July 7, 2013, in Rochester, New York. One of the presenters is Lisa Christiansen, who once lived in Gilbert, Arizona, and was an active Precinct Committeeman. In the first 5 minutes of this excellent video you will learn about the United Nations Universal D...
Video: College Board Accidentally Explains Dumbing Down AP to Match Common Core whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com AP tests are aligning to Common Core. So, explain this, Common Core proponents: the reason to change college-credit AP tests to Common Core is to make sure that they were actually college-ready? Um...
Veteran OK Educator Blasts the Common Core | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com Linda Murphy, a former candidate for Oklahoma State Superintendent of Education and a veteran educator, blasted the Common Core saying the state has bought into the Common Core deception. Here are her primary points about implementing the Common Core: Losing state and local control. Extensively and…
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Common Core and Community College - Stop Common Core in Michigan stopcommoncoreinmichigan.com The National Center for Post-Secondary Research (NCPR) published an abstract in February 2013, The Common Core State Standards Implications for Community Colleges and Student Preparedness for College. The NCPR authors recommended,
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School choice doesn’t carry R or D label www.redefinedonline.org Anyone who denies the growing bipartisanship around all things school choice should pause to consider what happened in Rhode Island this year. There, in
Video: College Board Accidentally Explains Dumbing Down AP to Match Common Core whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com AP tests are aligning to Common Core. So, explain this,
Common Core proponents: the reason to change college-credit AP tests to Common Core is to make sure that they were actually college-ready? Um...
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Here’s an idea, what if every school adopted a dual career and college readiness mandate?
6/15/13 - Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) Delivers Weekly Address On Student Loans www.youtube.com In the Weekly Republican Address, U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN) calls on Senate Democrats to put politics aside and support a long-term fix to prevent ...
New Common Core State Standards coming for students, schools www.tallahassee.com Teachers like Rebecca Kircharr are already preparing for the immense changes that are coming to Florida public schools this year.
Other states eye Florida’s school grading woes - Schools - MiamiHerald.com www.miamiherald.com The successes and failures of Florida’s school grading system have implications across the nation.
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Why Are the Rich So Interested in Public-School Reform? | TIME.com ideas.time.com They want to remake America's students in their own high-achieving image, but they're overlooking socioeconomics
Feds May Raise Phone Taxes to Fund Common Core Test-Taking #stopcommoncore stopcommoncoreillinois.org The Heartland Institute - The Obama administration may raise taxes
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Video: Homeschooling Advocate Warns Common Core Abandon Classics | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com Will Estrada, the Director of Federal Relations with HSLDA (Homeschool Legal Defense Association was interviewed by Ginni Thomas of The Daily Caller about the Common Core State Standards. An excerpt from the article: Will Estrada, the director of federal relations for the Home School Legal Defense...
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Dr. Everett Piper, President of Oklahoma Wesleyan University speaking on Common Core www.youtube.com Speaking at a Common Core forum in Edmond, Oklahoma, Dr. Everett Piper makes the case that Common Core State Standards are indeed 'common' and that a true li...
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Common Core opposition says Chamber of Commerce forum was 'staged' blog.al.com The Alabama Federation of Republican Women and Alabamians United for Excellence in Education speak out against Huntsville Chamber of Commerce's Common Core forum.
Tempers flare at 1st Common Core hearing as legislators clash with Flanagan, each other www.mlive.com Rep. Tom McMillin (R-Rochester Hills) was cut off at one point by the committee chairman after repeatedly asking the same question of State Superintendent Mike Flanagan.
San Antonio's Northside ISD Ends Badge Tracking Program foxsanantonio.com KABB Fox San Antonio :: Top Stories - Northside I.S.D. Ends Badge Tracking Program - By: Fox S.A. StaffNorthside I.S.D. has scrapped its controversial program to track students through
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Numbers of A schools to drop; F schools to rise, according to state simulation | Extra Credit... blogs.palmbeachpost.com During the State Board of Education meeting Tuesday where the board narrowly voted to approve a stop-gap measure for school grades, board member Sally Bradshaw
Who Is Behind The Privatization Of Education:Gates, Broad, KIPP, Pearson, EdWest & The Gulen Schools www.youtube.com Who Is Behind The Privatization Of Education: Education, Privatization, Bill Gates, Broad, KIPP, Pearson, EdWest And The Gulen Schools. A massive national an...
Use of Common Core standards is explained www.jacksonsun.com During her first superintendent's report to the Jackson-Madison County School Board Monday night, Verna Ruffin and elementary education leader Versie Hamlett shared how teachers will use the Common Core standards.
Utahns gather at the State Capitol to voice concern over www.abc4.com SALT LAKE CITY (ABC 4 Utah) - You've probably heard of "Common Core," it's a controversial federal mandate for education. Many people in Utah don't like it, and hundreds gathered Wednesday at the State Capitol to voice their concern.
Curriculum and Instruction www.fldoe.org The Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts and Literacy in History/Social Studies, Science, and Technical Subjects which includes reading, writing, language, and speaking and listening standards, were adopted by the Florida State Board of Education on July 27, 2010. In summer of 2010…
House GOP rolls out conservative education bill educationviews.org House Majority Leader Eric Cantor made a fresh push Tuesday to pass a massive rewrite of No Child Left Behind, as Republicans try to roll back the controversial education performance standards of t...
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David Coleman SDP Beyond the Numbers Convening www.youtube.com David Coleman, president of the College Board and creator of the Common Core State Standards, talks to data analysts in a conference in Boston on May 31, 201...
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Warning: The Common Core standards may be harmful to children www.kappanmagazine.org The author, a longtime teacher and principal, levels harsh criticisms against the English/language arts standards of the Common Core State Standards. Some standards call on young children to behave like high school seniors, making fine distinctions between words or literary devices, carrying on mult...
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The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books www.nybooks.com Waiting for “Superman” a film directed by Davis Guggenheim
Gov Daniels: Zinn's Leftist Textbook crap, and unacceptable | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Perude University President Mitch Daniels created a storm among leftist media when he criticized Zinn's People History of the United States as crap.
What One Person Can Do To Stop Common Core whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com Across the nation, many people are beginning to raise concerns about implementing Common Core in our schools. Wondering what you can do? Here are some suggestions that add to what you'll find in T...
Common Core: In pursuit of the new Soviet man dailycaller.com The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a federal initiative designed to homogenize diverse state educational curricula. It is also the latest example of destructive federal overreach into th
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School Drops Controversial Student Tracking System Paned as ‘Mark of the Beast’ www.theblaze.com In October 2012, a student rebelled against RFID (radio-frequency identification) tracking cards issued -- and mandatory -- for all students within two schools in a San Antonio, Texas, school district, saying from a religious perspective, she considered them the "mark of the beast." After court batt...
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Rewrite of No Child Left Behind Passes House blog.heritage.org [caption id=attachment_124065 align=alignnone width=576] Newscom[/caption] The House has just passed the Student Success Act (SSA), a proposal sponsored by Representatives John Kline (R–MN) and Todd Rokita (R–IN) to rewrite the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law. The proposal aims to fix some o...
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ESEA Briefing Book www.edexcellence.net Political leaders hope to act soon to renew and fix the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA, also known as No Child Left Behind). In this
important paper, Thomas B. Fordham Institute President Chester E. Finn, Jr. and Executive Vice President Michael J. Petrilli identify 10 big issues that…
Georgia Department of Education www.gadoe.org July 22, 2013 – State School Superintendent Dr. John Barge and Gov. Nathan Deal announced today that Georgia is withdrawing from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) test development consortium.
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Common Core State Standards; What Do They Mean To You? www.youtube.com This is an overview of the Common Core State Standards from the mythology that they were 'state led' to the interesting notion that David Coleman himself wro...
Georgia Pulls Out of PARCC | Fight Common Core fightcommoncore.com The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported this afternoon that Georgia has decided to pull out of PARCC. In rejecting the test, Gov. Nathan Deal and Superintendent John Barge cited its cost, which could have been as high as $27 million — slightly more than the state’s entire K-12 testing budget. Geor...
Florida Supporters And Opponents Race To Explain Common Core stateimpact.npr.org When Gov. Rick Scott and Education Commissioner Tony Bennett met with school superintendents in April, Florida’s new education standards led the questions. “Let’s start with Common Core," said Martin County superintendent Laurie Gaylord. “We recently held a Common Core workshop for our school board…
Alert: Feds to spend $8 million in Florida to sell Obamacare watchdogwire.com The Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) reports it has 46 awards totaling $8,052,533 to sell the Affordable Healthcare Act in Florida. The DHHS website states, "Florida has 48 health centers with 410 sites that served 1,136,458 patients last year, 43.65 percent of them uninsured. With the...
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Common Core Testing Costs Increase; Georgia Withdraws | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org It will only take three more states to withdraw from PARCC national Common Core tests to jeopardize the group’s $186 million federal grant.
Get Your Common Corporate Test for Just $29.95, or Wait for the Fire Sale atthechalkface.com One of the two ginormous Common Corp consortia, PARCC, finally priced their product line yesterday. The $29.95 per student does not include costs for professional development, diagnostic tests, fo...
Letter: Be informed about Common Core State Standards : Historic City News historiccity.com Letter: Be informed about Common Core State Standards John Thrasher Former Republican Party of Florida Chairman St Augustine, FL Dear Editor: Like many of your readers, I have been followin
EPIC - EPIC to Defend Student Privacy Rights in Federal Court epic.org On July 24, EPIC President Marc Rotenberg and EPIC Administrative Law Counsel Khaliah Barnes will present arguments in federal district court in Washington, DC in support of student privacy. In EPIC v. Dept. of Education, No. 12-327, EPIC is challeng...
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Diane Ravitch: 3 Dubious Uses of Technology in Schools: Scientific American www.scientificamerican.com Technology can inspire creativity or dehumanize learning
What Common Core State Standards Mean for Catholic Schools youtu.be The Common Core State Standards are becoming increasingly important in the Catholic school industry and the NCEA is taking it seriously. Sister Dale McDonald...
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Common Core academic standards failing the test? www.politico.com President Barack Obama’s goal of holding all students across the U.S. to the same high academic standards may be on the verge of unraveling as states take a hard look at the more rigorous tests under development — and balk. Backed by $360 million in federal grants, some 40-plus states ha...
'Common Core' In Jeopardy As More States Withdraw www.breitbart.com With the states of Alabama, Utah, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania – and now Georgia – having decided to withdraw from the national Common Core tests, the program appears to be in danger of unraveling.
Common Core Causes Test Scores to Drop in Maryland | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com Lillian Lowery, the Maryland State School Superintendent pointed primarily to the Common Core State Standards as the culprit as to why test scores dropped in Maryland this year. Via the Baltimore Sun: The drops in test scores for both elementary and middle schools were seen in nearly every school di...
Is Common Core Failing the Test? (+video) joemiller.us President Barack Obama’s goal of a one-size-fits-all standard academic curriculum for the nation may be on the verge of unraveling as states take a harder look. SHARE THIS PAGE:
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New Gates History Curriculum Closes Young Minds to God | Crisis Magazine www.crisismagazine.com There seems to be no limit to the ambition of Bill Gates. After making tens of billions in the personal computer revolution, Gates has become a full-time cheerleader for leftist causes on a global scale—whether it’s reducing carbon emissions to
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Senator Rubio Appears to Oppose Common Core Standard | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Senator Rubio, interviewed to day in orlando, is said to oppose the controversial federalized Common Core Standard. Rubio says states should have full control.
Islamic Indoctrination in American Schools... Floridians Outraged Over Muslim Bias in Textbooks dcclothesline.com Does Prentice Hall ring a bell? Depending on when you went to school you may have had a few Prentice Hall textbooks. I know I did. One of their current textbooks, simply titled World History, is ca...
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Teachers or ‘Quantitative Learning Gains Facilitators?’ www.washingtonpost.com Here are the competing narratives in the school reform debate. Pick the one that makes the most sense to you.
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National civics, history tests to disappear | Human Events www.humanevents.com "Is it possible to have a responsible citizenry if we don’t teach them civics, history, and the humanities?”
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Common Core Parent/ Expert dialogue. www.youtube.com Do you ever feel like everyone you ask about Common Core talks in circles?
Left-Right Alliance for Education www.lrallianceforeducation.org We oppose the CCSSI because it continues the failed education reforms of the past and violates privacy rights as it builds a system for centrally managed student training for the future workforce of the “Global Economy.” This central goal will dismantle liberal arts education, which most contributes...
School board shuts down proposed Bible history class www.news965.com “Fox & Friends” says a Delaware public school board shot down a proposed course over the Bible. Supportive board member, Sandi Minard, says the course was only meant to be a history of the Bible. The decision was split 3-3, with one member absent, and thus was shut down. The News Journal says the de...
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A Moore Teacher Retires Because of Common Core www.youtube.com ROPE has reported the number of teachers we speak to that are retiring rather than have to either prepare for, teach, or be responsible through TLE evaluatio...
Rubio comes out against Common Core, putting him at odds with Jeb Bush www.tampabay.com Sen. Marco Rubio has joined growing criticism of the education standards known as Common Core, putting him in conflict with Jeb Bush at a time when Rubio is sharpening his conservative credentials.
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Ohio Lawmaker Proposes Common Core Repeal | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org If passed, the bill would prohibit state funds for Common Core materials, training, and tests in Ohio, prohibit Ohio from sending student information to the federal government or other outside groups, and require public discussion and further study of Common Core and education standards.
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In Arizona, testing costs jump 50 percent under Common Core dailycaller.com The standardized tests required under Common Core, the new federal education guidelines, will increase the state of Arizona's test-related costs by 50 percent, according to a new report. Arizona's
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High School Text Book Literally Re-writes History - YoungPatriots.com youngpatriots.com High school textbook literally rewriting history - clear bias toward Islam.
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Florida Tenth Amendment Center launches petition to stop Common Core watchdogwire.com There is a growing movement at the state level to stop Common Core State Standards (CCSS). There is a new twist to the movement. The Florida Tenth Amendment Center (FLTAC) has launched county-level e-campaigns for local resolutions to stop CCSS.
$20 Million Chicago Schools Contract Raises Questions www.huffingtonpost.com Quietly and without public fanfare, the Chicago Board of Education recently awarded a contract to a small for-profit company that CPS officials say is the best bet to provide high-quality training for principals and mid-level administrators.
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Education researcher warns: Common Core wants dumbed-down working class www.onenewsnow.com An education researcher recently published an article about Common Core that will concern, even frighten, parents unfamiliar with the goals of the standards.
School Defends Textbook Calling Muhammad “God’s Messenger” www.westernjournalism.com School officials in Florida are defending a textbook that declares Muhammad as the “Messenger of God” after critics accused an Islamic education group of launching a stealth jihad in American public school classrooms. The Prentice World History textbook being used in Brevard Public Schools includes…
Matthew Tully: Tony Bennett's wife now works at for-profit corporation he picked to run IPS schools www.indystar.com In June of 2011, Tony Bennett, then Indiana's superintendent of public instruction, picked a for-profit education company in Florida to run a group of Indianapolis public schools.
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Common Core Curriculum "Standards" Debunked - Girard At Large www.girardatlarge.com PhD and former Validation Committee member refuses to validate Common Core standards. Find out why.
Michelle Malkin - Jeb Bush's Crony Republicans Against Higher Standards townhall.com he resignation of Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett couldn't have come at a better time. His disgraceful grade-fixing scandal is the perfect symbol of all that's wrong with the federal education schemes peddled by Bennett and his mentor, former GOP Gov. Jeb Bush: phony academic standards,…
2013-08 News | Potential Interim Education Commissioner is Pro-Common Core - We Need to Withdraw... www.flstopcccoalition.org Potential Interim Education Commissioner is Pro-Common Core - We Need to Withdraw from Common Core!
Get beyond buzz words and Common Core is "exercise in delusion." www.ajc.com Cindy Lutenbacher is a teacher and DeKalb County public school parent. She is also an ardent critic of Common Core State Standards.
Parents claim textbook is biased against Christianity video.foxnews.com Publisher says history book is balanced
Articles: Common Core's Data Mining Trojan Horse www.americanthinker.com Although high information Americans are becoming aware of the federal takeover of education through Common Core Standards, there seems to be little recognition yet that Common Core gives schools and third parties unprecedented access to students' personal information. The federal government is acqu...
Suspend Florida School Grading youpower.democracyforamerica.com Florida citizens already doubt the integrity of the accountability system and the reliability of school grades. Recent revelations of grade tampering by Governor Scott's latest Commissioner of Education Tony Bennett have confirmed our worst fears - the grading of Florida schools is subject to politi...
Michelle Malkin - Jeb Bush's Crony Republicans Against Higher Standards townhall.com he resignation of Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett couldn't have come at a better time. His disgraceful grade-fixing scandal is the perfect symbol of all that's wrong with the federal education schemes peddled by Bennett and his mentor, former GOP Gov. Jeb Bush: phony academic standards,…
Opinion: N.J. education chief 'is driving a stake through the heart of public education by his... www.nj.com Mr. Cerf and the state Board of Education have usurped the rights of New Jersey parents, who want more for their children than a third-world education.
Teaching our children bad science watchdogwire.com Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a product of Achieve, Inc., are being used throughout the U.S. public school system. I
have just reviewed the final NGSS standards on areas related to the teaching of climate change. Here are my conclusions: 1. General. On the subject of the NGSS for climate...
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Rachel Alexander - Common Core: What's Hidden Behind the Language townhall.com Conservatives are in an uproar over Common Core, an educational curriculum being forced upon the states by the Obama administration, which is scheduled to be mostly implemented this year in the 46 states that have adopted it. Common Core eliminates local control over K-12 curriculum in math and Engl...
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Problems with Common Core www.youtube.com Dr. Duke Pesta describes what's wrong with the federalized, one-size-fits-all Common Core standards for American education. Dr. Pesta is academic director of...
Lessons in spelling 'have no place in 21st century schools' - Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk Schools should stop providing lessons in spelling and grammar because children can correct linguistic errors on their mobile phones, according to a leading academic.
Watchdog Wire Tweets Up With EAGnews (with tweets) · rswaff storify.com Watchdog Wire hosted a Tweet Up with Education Action Group of EAGnews.org to discuss education reform, common core, classroom bias, and the state of American education. The result was a fiery debate - particularly between pro and anti Common Core groups.
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Bill Gates Promoting False History | Around the World with Ken Ham blogs.answersingenesis.org Well, there’s another new curriculum that’s encouraging compromise—but this one is being supported by software billionaire Bill Gates. Gates, who has
What the New SAT and Digital ACT Might Look Like www.nytimes.com The SAT is being overhauled — again — and the ACT is going digital. The test makers reveal what the exams might look like.
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Why schools aren’t businesses: The blueberry story www.washingtonpost.com How a corporate leader discovered schools shouldn't be run like businesses.
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Survey: States sticking with Common Core standards www.lasvegassun.com Survey: States unlikely to reverse, limit decision to adopt Common Core education standards
Top Ten Scariest People in Education Reform whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com Michelle Rhee: Putting Students Last Countdown # 10: Top Ten Scariest People in Education Reform This is the first in a countdown series of introductions, a list of the Top Ten Scariest People Le...
A National Education Standards Exit Strategy for States www.heritage.org State policymakers should resist the imposition of national education standards and tests and prevent their implementation.
Teachers & parents protest outside School Board Office - ABC4.com - Salt Lake City, Utah News
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Episode 27: “Common ‘Muslim Brotherhood’ Core Curriculum” tnfullyexposed.com Tennessee is one of several states that have adopted Obama’s “Common Core” Curriculum. Our special guest, Cathy Hinners, is the founder of the Daily Roll Call and has been vigilant in her investigation. Listen in to see how the Common Core in Tennessee is being pushed by Muslim Brotherhood organizat...
Trouble with the Common Core - Nashville Parent Magazine www.nashvilleparent.com Educational reform has never been needed more, and yet, a tempest larger than a teapot is brewing today.
Assessment vs. Achievement Tests -- February 1999 Education Reporter www.eagleforum.org Assessment vs. Achievement Tests -- February 1999 Education Reporter
Intimidated? Stand Strong Against the Bully of Common Core whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com Increasingly,evidence damning Common Core and its appendages is disappearing. For example, the video where the current College Board President David Coleman, (lead architect on Common Core English ...
Florida Politics and Business News - Tallahassee News | Sunshine State News | Sunshine State News www.sunshinestatenews.com Sunshine State News brings you online coverage of Florida politics & business with breaking news on local government, business & elections in Florida.
Feds announce takeover of CC assessments www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com Put the delusions to rest, the feds have announced their takeover of Common Core through control of the assessments.
Katie Pavlich - Democratic Governors: Obamacare Could Ruin Our Re-election Chances townhall.com It isn't just U.S. House members and Senators who are worried about re-election with Obamacare being held over their heads, Democratic governors are getting worried too.
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Five absurdities about high-stakes standardized tests www.washingtonpost.com Custodians evaluated by test scores, and much more.
Concerned Women for America - Just Breaking! New reports reveal Common Core standards are... www.cwfa.org State Senator William Ligon (R-Brunwick) released two reports today that clearly show that Georgia traded down when adopting the Common Core standard for math and English language arts (ELA) in 2010. Sen. Ligon requested an independent analysis be completed for the math and ELA standards. Dr. Mary K...
Legislative Task Force To Perform Educational Review | Alaska Public Media www.alaskapublic.org The state spends nearly $2 billion on its public school system every year, but despite that, districts across Alaska come up against layoffs and strapped budgets. Now, a newly formed legislative task force plans to review the state of Education in Alaska. Download Audio
Wyoming GOP Passes Anti-Common Core Resolution | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com Sources in Wyoming tell me that the Wyoming GOP State Central Committee at their meeting on Saturday, July 27th passed a resolution condemning the Common Core State Standards. I was told it was a tight vote, but the vote count was not available and won’t be confirmed until the minutes are approved…
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Florida’s new Education Commissioner has close ties with Jeb Bush – good or bad? watchdogwire.com Stewart is a "Bush reformer".
Common Core protested at Broward schools headquarters - Schools - MiamiHerald.com www.miamiherald.com In the latest sign that not everyone in Florida is supporting the state’s switch to Common Core curriculum standards, about two dozen protesters descended upon Tuesday’s Broward School Board meeting, holding signs and an American flag while trying to attract the attention of motorists…
Common Core is neither internationally bencharked nor state-led pioneerinstitute.org I have nothing against IHOP. I eat there if there is nothing else better around. But I wouldn’t take my kids there on a regular basis. The food may have the moniker of “international” but I don’t think that anyone actually believes that. (It’s not even close to mom’s cooking.) Alas, the syrupy Co...
New York Common Core Scores Drop Like a Rock | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com WROC-TV in Rochester, NY is reporting that scores for New York’s 3rd-8th graders Common Core scores are dismal. New York recently developed their own state exam, and the kids’ scores “dropped like a rock.” What’s worse is that they were expecting it. As expected, test scores for New York’s third t...
Common Core Test Scores Dismal www.rochesterhomepage.net In Rochester, only 5 percent of students are proficient in math and English.
Chicago Democrat Activist High School Teacher: Common Core a Massive Fraud whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com Paul Horton is a Democrat, a political activist, and a Chicago high school history teacher who stands up against Common Core. He writes: "I will vote for a Republican for governor who will get rid ...
Shock Doctrine; or five reasons not to trust the new test scores us6.campaign-archive2.com
Respected Iowa Test of Basic Skills is the Most Cost-effective Way to Meet National Testing... www.washingtonpolicy.org Key Findings
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Common Core: The Decade Long Death Panel for Public Education
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Education event stirs questions about Common Core standards | jacksonville.com
New York fails Common Core tests
Wyoming Test Scores Drop | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com Like New York, Wyoming student test scores drop as well, and like New York it was “expected.” The Casper Star-Tribune reports: Statewide scores for elementary and middle school students in the Performance Assessment for Wyoming Students, or PAWS, this spring declined in every subject and every gra...
Common Core Curriculum Brings Big Shifts To Math Instruction
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Common Core: A Threat to Catholic Education | Crisis Magazine www.crisismagazine.com Editor’s note: The following letter by Eagle Forum president, Phyllis Schlafly, was mailed this month to key members of the Roman Catholic hierarchy in the United States concerning the implementation of the Common Core education standards in public and private
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Don't Worry About Your Test Scores blogs.edweek.org They told us not to worry about the more difficult state assessments in a year they were tied to teacher and administrator evaluations.
Who’s setting Wisconsin’s academic standards? watchdog.org By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — Sure, officials with the state Department of Instruction met with hig
Rep. Adkins Directly Contradicts Governor Scott | Florida Stop Common Core Coalition www.flstopcccoalition.org After Tony Bennett's resignation in disgrace education establishment is furiously trying to keep a happy face on the Common Core system. They are not succeeding. In two meetings in the Jacksonville area on August 6th, Rep. Janet Adkins, chairwoman of the House Education Committee, .....
Bush Foundation Defends Common Core Before Skeptical Repub | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Bush foundation staffer kate wallace defended common core standards before a skeptical florida republican audience. REC had concerns about data and standards
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Two more DOE staff members from Indiana resign - OrlandoSentinel.com
Making the Case Against (the Illegal) Common Core State Standards bwcentral.org There is growing controversy over the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) throughout the United States. Grassroots movements are springing up everywhere in an attempt to educate voters who have never heard of the CCSS, hoping that they will join the ranks of those fighting against the CCSS.
Missouri Education Watchdog: A Teacher's Experience with Common Core www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
Gates pours millions in new grants to change teaching profession www.washingtonpost.com Who is getting Gates money now -- and for what?
Jeb Bush backs common core at conservative conference www.news-press.com Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush defended new uniform achievement standards for students around the nation Friday.
Data Mining using Common Core: Cha Ching – Cha Ching! watchdogwire.com Not only is the Common Core State Standards initiative about “dumbing down” our children under the guise of bringing them up, but it is all about power, control and especially money! While many Americans worry about government drones spying on their private lives and NSA wiretapping phones, Washingt...
Common Core unconstitutional www.newarkadvocate.com In response to The Advocate article, 'Common Core unlikely to change,' on Aug. 4, I offer that Common Core is an unconstitutional initiative. The Constitution of the United States grants the federal government no authority over education.
Common Core no more: Colorado school district goes own way www.onenewsnow.com A Colorado school district has passed a resolution opposing the federal Common Core standards for education because board members believe those standards are too low.
Americans have a common cause in battle against Common Core State Standards www.hngnews.com The government is planning to spend about $16 BILLION to implement programs that are basically the same as those paid for in the 1950s. Many have been given the false impression that Common Core State Standards and the International Baccalaureate programs will reform and improve education. However,…
Utah Personalizes Learning With Portable Records blogs.edweek.org In October, Digital Learning Now! published Data Backpacks: Portable Records & Learner Profiles. The paper makes the case for portable academic K-12 transcript that follows students grade to grade and school to school
Corporate Education 'From Above' and the Trouble with Common Core www.commondreams.org (Cartoon: Ethan Heitner / More at: freedomfunnies.wordpress.com)It isn't easy to find common ground on the Common Core. Already hailed as the “next big thing” in education reform, the Common Core State Standards are being rushed into classrooms in nearly every district in the country. Although these...
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Jersey Jazzman: "College AND Career Ready": A Useless, Phony Phrase jerseyjazzman.blogspot.com Word Jazz served (mostly) daily. Education, politics, music, the arts, New Jersey, and whatever else strikes me. "A widely read teacher blogger" - Jane Roh, Courier Post. "One of my favorite bloggers" - Diane Ravitch
Tony Bennett Emails Jeb - Count the Errors #HugeFail gatorbonbc.wordpress.com This is an email written by our former Florida Commissioner of Education, Tony Bennett. The email is addressed to Jeb Bush. Both men call for higher standards in public schools and for more account...
Orwellian Nightmare: Data-mining Your Kids www.thenewamerican.com Being implemented hand in hand with the new national curriculum standards being pushed on schools, called Common Core, is government surveillance of students. By Alex Newman
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Test Scores Plummet After New York Adopts Common Core Standards www.breitbart.com Student test scores on New York state exams plummeted this year following the state’s adoption of the Common Core national standards. In New York City, 26 percent of students in third through eighth grade passed the state English exam, and only 30 percent passed the math test, compared to 47 p...
Missouri Education Watchdog: More Numbers Games with Common Core Assessments www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
Terrence Moore from Hillsdale College testifies on Common Core to IN Senate www.youtube.com Common Core Standards problems with ELA and the lack of Literature
Walking the Labyrinth of the Corporate-Owned-Common Core www.youtube.com expose corporate interest in education "reform"--with actual feet in the footage
educationalchemy | A blog dedicated to democracy, public education, and the power of the imagination to fight corporate greed–if the truth sounds crazy it is because we have become too accustomed to falsehoods
A Labyrinth of Corporate Interests in Common Core | educationalchemy
Tony Bennett emailed Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels about his resignation www.indystar.com The day before he abruptly resigned from his job, Florida Education Commissioner Tony Bennett wrote an impassioned email to two former governors he called 'part of my family.'
CSCOPE Temporary Restraining Order News Conference Monday! us2.campaign-archive1.com Those of us who have been in this battle against CSCOPE understand clearly that this issue is a political opportunity and a political hot potato. For those elected officials who understand this is not about their political future but about the children of Texas and the future of our State and our N...
Detroit News Op-Ed calls Common Core "manufactured" crisis - Stop Common Core in Michigan stopcommoncoreinmichigan.com Dale Hansen a “politically left” blogger at the Detroit News calls Common Core a “manufactured education crisis.”
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National Sexuality Education Standards - Core Content and Skills, K-12 ~ South Dakotans Against... www.sdagainstcommoncore.com I recently typed up a blog post about the dumbing down of the Saxon Math curriculum. The whole education establishment needs to be privatized
and divorced from Federal Money: http://jennyhatch.com/2013/04/30/uncommon-lore-the-original-saxon-math-curriculum-math-a-firm-foundation-to-build-a-homeschoo...
Catholic School Parents Against Common Core
Why ignore research on child development? (To promote your own disinformation for profit...)
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Indiana charter school grade scandal could slow system support | TuscaloosaNews.com
Common Core may create common problem for Georgia and other states: Lower ...
Glenn Beck bashes Wake County school poem on Common Core curriculum
Common Core : 3 x 4=11
Diane Ravitch, other Common Core opponents to testify in Michigan
NYC home to 22 schools among top 25 Common Core exam performers
Atlanta superintendent commits to Common Core
Postponing 'Stakes' for Common Core Won't Work www.edweek.org Postponing high stakes for the common-core assessments would delay important progress, writes Alice Johnson Cain of Teach Plus.
Restore Oklahoma Public Education: Oklahoma History Standards Could Very Well Be Common Core... restoreoklahomapubliceducation.blogspot.com Good information. But ~ at over 1200 words, far, far too wordy. Try to get this message across with 400 to 600 words max.Thanks for your insight.
147 Degrees West: Common Core Makes Parental Choice Legislation Irrelevant in Alaska 147degreeswest.blogspot.com
New Movie about Common Core standupforthetruth.com “Common Core: Dangers And Threats to American Liberty and Education,” is a new movie is coming out in September that will help all of us understand better what Common Core is and why we should be c...
9 Signs of Academic Rigor in English Standards (by Sandra Stotsky) pioneerinstitute.org What makes one set of English language arts standards more rigorous than another set? How can reporters or policy makers tell? What makes Tom Luna of Idaho or Kathleen Porter Magee at the Fordham Institute think Common Core’s English language arts standards are more rigorous than Idaho’s or many oth...
Barresi at the Common Core Forum - www.1170kfaq.com www.1170kfaq.com Superintendent Janet Barresi's speech and Q & A at the Tulsa 9.12 event on Common Core standards on August 10, 2013:
Newly Discovered Eighth Grade Exam From 1912 Shows How Dumbed Down America Has Become | Education beforeitsnews.com Have you ever seen the movie “Idiocracy”? It is a movie about an “average American” that wakes up 500 years in the future only to discover that he is the most intelligent person by far in the “dumbed down” society that is surrounding him....
Michigan Department of Education awarded $400,000 grant for preschool student data system www.mlive.com The grant from the Kellogg Foundation will support development of a shared data system for preschool students.
Teacher at Obama kids school attacks his education policy | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Paul Horton, a history teacher at the university of chicago laboratory school, where Obama sent his kids attacks obama's educational policy standards.
Translating the Common Core | Chris Tienken christienken.com Christopher Tienken, Ed.D. is an assistant professor of Education Administration at Seton Hall University in the College of Education and Human Services, Department of Education Management, Policy, and Leadership. He has public school administration experience as a PK-12 assistant superintendent, mi...
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Program opposing 'common core' slated for Thursday in Quincy www.whig.com The session is being promoted by illinoisminutemen.com, an organization fighting the introduction of common core state standards in Illinois schools.
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The Common Core: Who’s Minding the Schools? www.nytimes.com Are new standards really leveling the playing field? Or is the game prearranged so that many, if not most, of the players will fail?
Your State's Progress | Data Quality Campaign www.dataqualitycampaign.org The DQC is a national, collaborative effort to improve the availability and use of high-quality education data to improve student achievement.
Education commissioner wants authority to oversee school boards capitalbusinessblog.bcnys.org New York's Education Commissioner John King wants the state legislature to pass a bill, giving the Board of Regents the authority to take over school boards in districts that do not meet certain academic benchmarks. The proposal outlines a three-step process with a takeover being the last step if a
Greg Roth - 21st Century Workforce — Horizon TV - okhorizon.com www.okhorizon.com Oklahoma workforce specialist Greg Roth explains how we prepare workers for jobs in the 21st century.
Home Inspections for Low Achievement? The ObamaCare Common Core Tie-In | Stop the Common Core in... stopalaskacommoncore.com Today, Ben Swan is reporting on an ObamaCare provision that appears to connect Common Core with ObamaCare. According to this provision, home inspections will
Parent Led Reform holds Common Core Forum in Centennial Colorado libertywatch.info On Monday, August 12, 2013 Parent Led Reform held a Forum on Common Core at the Koelbel Library in Centennial Colorado. Four experts on Common Core and related issues (high-stakes testing and data collection) answered questions. The event was hosted by John Ransom (host of Ransom Notes Radio Show an...
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2013-08 News | Republican Leaders Provide Excellent Response to Thrasher Letter www.flstopcccoalition.org Republican Leaders Provide Excellent Response to Thrasher Letter
Do These Tests Have Educational Value? www.huffingtonpost.com The new Common Core Standards tests are really being used as weapons against teachers and schools to force them to adopt questionable but expensive curriculum being marketed by test prep companies that seem to have enormous influence over politicians.
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Politico: Jeb Bush’s Common Core Stance Faces Scrutiny — American Principles Project bit.ly Politico just covered the growing conservative opposition to the new federally pushed Common Core standards, as well as the emerging damage to longtime education reformer Jeb Bush as a result of his support...
Anti-Common Core group calls standards a federal effort to control www.orlandosentinel.com The Florida Stop Common Core Coalition today issued a policy paper detailing its oppositon to the new set of academic standards adopted by Florida and most other states. The paper says the
standards are a move to "instill federally determined attitudes and mindsets in students including po...
Setting a standard for books in class www.denverpost.com Across the country, a growing number of high school students are enrolling in advanced placement English classes. These classes are designed to give students a head start on college, as well as provide enrichment.
Core standards www.newsminer.com Aug. 9, 2013
Common Core - Attack on White Folk www.youtube.com Don't get mad, they've already screwed up the Negro Schools.
Maggie Gallagher - Two Moms vs. Common Core www.nationalreview.com How an eight-year-old’s homework assignment led to a political upheaval
Abandoning 'Common Core' education standards would send wrong message to industry, BRAC (Opinion... www.al.com In 45 states, the District of Columbia, four territories and any DoD school, today’s students will be taught according to the same standards.
Obama skirts Congress, funds pre-K through Obamacare dailycaller.com With congressional Republicans refusing to finance an expensive universal preschool proposal, President Obama is seeking an alternate funding source: Obamacare. Universal pre-K is one of Obama's fa
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Teaching our children bad science watchdogwire.com Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), a product of Achieve, Inc., are being used throughout the U.S. public school system. I have just reviewed the final NGSS standards on areas related to the teaching of climate change. Here are my conclusions: 1. General. On the subject of the NGSS for climate...
What Is Really Behind the Common Core Catholic Identity Initiative? | Ohioans Against Common Core ohioansagainstcommoncore.com Truth in American Education – NCEA Promoting Controversial Common Core Standards Across the Country Pittsburgh, PA – The National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA), the largest private professional education organization in the world (according to their website), had its first national confere...
Stop Common Core video of the day: 3 x 4 = 11 michellemalkin.com This new video of an apparent teacher training session on Common Core math — in which the trainer explains how getting the wrong answer is right — should come as no surprise.
Rick Scott supports Common Core, but not its Data Mining watchdogwire.com Rick Scott is Common to the Core.
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Common Core: Why You Should Be Concerned www.patrioticmoms.com Common Core standards are cause for concern for many reasons. They take power the Constitution gives to state and local government and give it to the federal government. Parents will continue...
Catholic school parents fear arrival of Common Core
Common Core testing highlights contradictions
Common Core Could Be Jeb Bush's Romneycare
School Standards' Debut Is Rocky, and Critics Pounce
Obama math: under new Common Core , 3 x 4 = 11 [VIDEO]
Top Ten Scariest People in Education Reform: #8 – Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education | COMMON CORE
1,500 rally against Common Core tests at Comsewogue High School www.news12.com More than 1,500 parents, teachers and students gathered at the Comsewogue High School football field in Port Jefferson Station Saturday to criticize the Common Core standardized tests on which a major
Video: Oklahoma 1st Grade Teacher Speaks Out: Money Skills Are Gone. Calendaring is Gone.... whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com At a filmed "Understanding Common Core" forum in Oklahoma a week ago, a passionate elementary school teacher spoke up. This is what she said. (She speaks just after minute 50:08 to 52:00.) "My name...
Superintendent Joseph Rella's Rally Against Common Core Propels Movement to Stop Common Core in...
Reading’s new math curriculum runs into protests - The Boston Globe www.bostonglobe.com Reading is one of the first school districts statewide to redesign its math curriculum in an attempt to align with the Common Core State Standards Initiative, preparation for national English and math tests for public school students. The district has adopted a new sequence that leaves more than 80…
1989 Governors Conference-Shirley McCune www.youtube.com Governors Conference on Education, Wichita, KS 11-2-1989 "Schools, Goals & the 1990s" In addition to her credentials as an authority in public education (she...
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Are Wrong Answers Right in the Common Core? stopcommoncorewa.wordpress.com The question comes up from time to time about the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) accepting and giving credit for wrong answers provided the student has explained how the process they used to ge...
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Obama Math: 3x4=11 Under New National Public School Curriculum nation.foxnews.com If you said 11 — or, hell, if you said 7, pi, or infinity squared — that’s just fine under the Common Core, the new national curriculum that the Obama administration will impose on American public school students this fall.
Common Core’s Data Mining Trojan Horse www.drcarolehhaynes.com Common Core’s Data Mining Trojan HorseBy Carole Hornsby Haynes, Ph.D.August 2, 2013 American Thinker Although high information Americans are becoming aware of the federal takeover of education through Common Core Standards, there seems to be little recognition yet that Common Core gives schools and…
URGENT: COMMON CORE IN LOUISIANA VIDEO: MUST WATCH, MUST SHARE......NOW!!!! - Greater New... www.meetup.com MISSION STATEMENT We are a diverse group of individuals with one common goal: To return our country to its intended state as put forth by its Founding Fathers. Our country, sadly, is unrecognizable t
Right Under Our Noses bit.ly My heart was pounding with indignation when I read today that the CCSSO (--that's the State Superintendents' Club-- a private group, not accountable to the public and in no way under voters' influe...
Evidence? Secretary Duncan, You Can't Handle the Evidence atthechalkface.com Secretary of Education Arne Duncan appears now to be assuming the mantle of self-righteous indignation—a tenuous perch for someone who is leading a field in which he has no experience or expertise....
Letter: Common teaching approach destroys individualism www.floridatoday.com I taught skills courses at Kennedy Space Center for several years, and although I taught the same skills to each class, what changed in each class were the students.
Understanding Common Core - Tulsa, OK - Roundtable Discussion - August 10, 2013 www.youtube.com Understanding Common Core - Tulsa, OK - Roundtable Discussion - August 10, 2013
Fox Selectively Edits Video To Attack Common Core Educational Standards
Obama’s new Common Core condones creative math answers: 3 X 4 = 11 - BizPac Review
Jeb Bush Defends Common Core At ALEC Meeting
Five Things We Learned About Common Core This Summer
Common Core , Obama's role, NCLB and student testing: What are the facts?
Math teacher: Inherent flaws in how Georgia and Common Core teach math
Right Under Our Noses whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com My heart was pounding with indignation when I read today that the CCSSO (--that's the State Superintendents' Club-- a private group, not accountable to the public and in no way under voters' influe...
Michelle Malkin: 'No coincidence' NYT's Bill Keller and Jeb Bush attacking my Common Core opposition twitchy.com Twitchy CEO, syndicated columnist, frequent Fox News commentator and "just a blogger" Michelle Malkin has been a vocal opponent of applying the Common Core State Standards Initiative to public educ...
500 hear opposition to common core curriculum www.waff.com Alabamians United for Excellence in Education held a meeting Saturday to discuss what they consider failures in the state's standardized curriculum program.
Common Core: A Scheme to Rewrite Education www.thenewamerican.com Common Core — new national education standards that the federal government is bribing and coercing states to adopt — will harm students, not benefit them. By Alex Newman
Michael Schaus - Common Core Teachers Taught to Praise Wrong Answers Like ’3 x 4 was 11’ finance.townhall.com Apparently, under the new Common-Core standards, correct answers don’t really matter. At least that’s according to a “curriculum coordinator” in Chicago named Amanda August.
Common Core Wants Your Children's Data stopcommoncorewa.wordpress.com It is through the assessments that the U.S. Department of Education will access all student data gathered through the assessments.
Common Core Curriculum: how do you spell socialism? www.speroforum.com Nationalized education imbedded in a workforce-management system? Well, how would you spell it?
Our view: Common Core, despite criticism, is worth doing staugustine.com Tomorrow is the first day for public schools, a day for students to renew their friendships with other students and to
start the journey of another year of learning. Despite the groaning today, most students will be happy to be in class tomorrow.
Dr. Gary Thompson on Common Core A.I.R. Testing
Common Core ELA curriculum resembles test prep, lacks meaning criticalclassrooms.wordpress.com The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were initially sold to me as student learning goals used as a blueprint in shaping instruction. I believed - naively, I now realize - that I’d have the freedo...
Student test scores now linked to teachers’ licenses www.washingtonpost.com Reformers find a new way to misuse student standardized test scores.
Prayer & Politics - Common Core Push Back - Michelle Malkin - America News Room - Fox News - 8-20-13 www.youtube.com
(WARNING: Graphic) Common Core Approved Child Pornography - Politichicks.tv politichicks.tv Following are graphic and explicit excerpts from The Bluest Eye, which is on the Common Core’s list of exemplar texts for 11th graders. If you are easily offended you may want to skip them and go straight to the story. (Note from editor: Even heavily edited, this is still very […]
Alaska Common Core SubPar Math | Stop the Common Core in Alaska stopalaskacommoncore.com Alaska chooses math standards that are not college ready. Division is delayed til 6th grade, Students will not be prepared for Stem or College level math classes. Perpetuates College Math remediation.
Understanding Common Core Forum - Amanda Teegarden - Tulsa, OK - August 10, 2013 www.youtube.com Amanda Teagarden a Tulsa parent asks Brian Hunt, Executive Director of Stand for Children in Oklahoma what he knows about data collection in public schools. ...
Chicago Teacher to NY Times: Stop Smearing Common Core Foes | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Paul Horton, a history teacher at University of Chicago High School argues that the NY Times should stop smearing Common Core opponents as extremists.
2013-08 News | Collier County Libertarian Party Passes Resolution Against Common Core www.flstopcccoalition.org Collier County Libertarian Party Passes Resolution Against Common Core
2-out-of-3 Americans Never Heard of Common Core | Caffeinated Thoughts caffeinatedthoughts.com For all of the hype that the Common Core State Standards were developed under a transparent process only one in three Americans have heard of them.
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Join Us at University of Notre Dame to Learn About the Common Core — American Principles Project americanprinciplesproject.org You are invited to join us in Indiana! We are looking
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Dave EastWood - Get informed About Common Core Standards | Florida Stop Common Core Coalition www.flstopcccoalition.org This article appeared in the August 6th edition of the Charlotte Sun. Part one of Mr. Eastwood's excellent series is available here. We thank him for his great work and for quoting Dr. Effrem. __________________________________________ Tea Parties have joined forces .....
Understanding Common Core Forum - Q&A - Olivia Goodwin - Tulsa, OK - August 10, 2013 www.youtube.com Understanding Common Core Forum - Q&A - Olivia Goodwin - Tulsa, OK - August 10, 2013
Local legislator breaks ranks to oppose Common Core education standards | August 21, 2013 |... politics.heraldtribune.com While Gov. Rick Scott and other elected officials seek to quell unrest over new statewide educational standards in the works, a Sarasota legislator has broken ranks, vowing to help kill the new program called Common Core.
10,000 Pages Needed to Answer Common Core Questions blog.heritage.org North Carolina Lt. Governor Dan Forest continues to stand up for educational freedom in his state by questioning the stakes connected to the implementation of the Common Core national education standards. In June, Forest released a video explaining his opposition to North Carolina’s rush to adopt th...
Deal orders review of Common Core www.ajc.com Gov. Nathan Deal has ordered a sweeping review of the Common Core national guidelines and asked the State Board of Education to “formally un-adopt” a part of the program that includes sample English test selections that infuriated some parents.
Pedophilia, Incest, and Graphic Sex: Excerpts from a Common Core Reading List Book for... www.theblaze.com Editor's note: The following story contains graphic language. Discretion is advised. Common Core, the controversial set of education standards being pushed by many state governors and education leaders, is coming under fire for its selection of a book that's on the suggested reading list for 11th gr...
Media Matters Accidentally Speaks the Truth, Calling Common Core ‘An Obama Administration Education www.theblaze.com By Kyle Olson EAGnews.org The radical attack group Media Matters obviously didn’t get a copy of the White House Common Core talking points. Defenders of the national education standards like to insist that the initiative was “state-led” and is therefore not a federal takeover...
Lt. Gov. Forest's issues DPI's Response to Common Core www.youtube.com If you would like to get a copy of DPI's response to my letter, please go to this link: http://www.scribd.com/doc/161947400/DPI-s-Response-to-Lt-Gov-Forest-s...
Dr. Karen Gushta Responds to Common Core Propaganda in Christianity Today | Florida Stop Common... www.flstopcccoalition.org Here is an excellent response to the
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Common Core’s Big Mistake: Messing with Moms | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org Fighting national education standards has given the Tea Party a new battlefront, as the Washington Post and others have noted. But the Post’s recent front-page story ignored what several of the people they interviewed stated unequivocally: The currents swelling the Common Core tsunami are mothers.
Data Mining: Students leaving their privacy at the schoolhouse door watchdogwire.com The multiple intelligences forms do not require approval at the district level.
Conservative groups to hold anti-Common Core meeting in Miami | Naked Politics miamiherald.typepad.com Last week, we wrote about growing opposition to the new Common Core standards. On Saturday, the Florida Stop Common Core Coalition will host a town hall in Miami. Speakers include Karen Effrem, of Education Liberty Watch; Emmot McGroarty of The...
Gov. Snyder why are PUBLIC standards PRIVATELY owned? - Stop Common Core in Michigan stopcommoncoreinmichigan.com I had the privilege of being a part of a WOODTV’s Live Town Hall with Governor Snyder. (Video at link could not be embedded.)
Does U.N.'s Agenda 21 Education Mandate Push Common Core in USA? whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com What Does Common Core Have To Do With the U.N.'s Agenda 21 ? --And Why Should You Care? There's an interesting article about Obama's call for the U.S. to pay for education of the world. It's "A...
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EAG RADAR: Will students actually benefit from Common Core? e2.ma August 23, 2013 Georgia governor asks education officials to determine if Common Core would actually benefit the state’s students By Victor Skinner EAGnews.org ATLANTA – Are the national Common Core education standards circling the drain? Georgia this week became the latest state to launch a formal…
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Turning Down PTA Donations www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com Concerned about PTA using your money to help promote Common Core? Here's what to do.
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Federal Government to have Access to your Child’s Data via Common Core Assessments | Truth in... truthinamericaneducation.com The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) assessments will provide the federal government access to information about your child. Yes, that is right. And you were never asked as a parent if this is okay with you, were you? How did this happen? Who authorized this? If your state has adopted the Common C...
About 1,500 rally against Common Core testing in Long Island district - EAGnews.org powered by... eagnews.org Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary powered by Education Action Group Foundation
David Barton Explains How Common Core Poses ‘Serious Problems for the Future of the Republic’ www.theblaze.com Author and historian David Barton guest hosted the Glenn Beck Program on TheBlaze TV Friday, dedicating the hour to the controversial education guidelines known as "Common Core." "You've heard about it, and over the coming months it'll be in the news even more as new parts of it...
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The Biggest Fallacy of the Common Core Standards www.huffingtonpost.com Across the nation, our schools are suffering from budget cuts. As more money is allocated to testing and
accountability, less money is available for the essential programs and services that all schools should provide. Our priorities are confused.
Ohio Considers Repealing Common Core watchdogwire.com Ohio opted in to the Common Core State Standards Initiative in 2010. But now citizens and politicians are having second thoughts.
Common Core will not cure education ills www.dnj.com The Common Core State Standards are partially implemented at present and will be fully functional in 2014-2015 with online testing.
Teacher: One (maddening) day working with the Common Core www.washingtonpost.com A high school English teacher and colleagues spend a day working with an “exemplar” from the Common Core standards and are distressed at what they found.
Are Oklahoma’s Tougher School Standards in Jeopardy? oklahomawatch.org Political pressure is building to repeal Common Core State Standards in Oklahoma, which advocates say would deal a significant blow to efforts to improve student achievement in the state.
Restore Oklahoma Public Education: The Zombies Are Coming, The Zombies Are Coming....! restoreoklahomapubliceducation.blogspot.com Our Sunday School Class now is doing the "Truth Projects" with Dr. Ken Dormer a research scientists facilitating the class discussions. I can't wait to share with the class this example of why not share the lie with your child or students. Great job with Betty one day she be honored to share your th...
A Monstrous Story for a Monstrous Curriculum: The Ugly Heart of Common Core dcclothesline.com I am a high school English teacher. I became a teacher because I believe that literacy, which goes beyond just reading the words on the page, is an absolute necessity for maintaining our Republic. ...
Karen Schoen -- Christianity is our foe...Word manipulation used for control www.newswithviews.com
Common Core as a brand name. Who is making money off the new... www.ajc.com A lot of you have asked, “Who benefits financially from the new Common Core State Standards?” The AJC examines that question in the Sunday AJC, and finds that it is not easy to separate out school system spending on Common Core.
Education Leaders Gather on Sun Coast - Orlando's Right Talk bbn.frn.com Those charged with educating Florida's children will brainstorm for three days in Clearwater beginning today.
An "Informational Text" from a Henderson County Public School stopcommoncorenc.org A fourth-grade student in Henderson County (corrected since original post) received the following worksheet, which qualifies as an "informational text" under the Common Core State Standards:
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Public School is One of the Most Dangerous Places You Could Possibly Put Your Children www.rightsidenews.com Government run public education is infused with the social engineering of American children and indoctrination centers for leftist agendas
Principal: ‘I was naïve about Common Core’ www.washingtonpost.com An award-winning principal who wrote a book in support of the Common Core now says she was
David Coleman, the Most Influential Education Figure You've Never Heard Of forward.com David Coleman, president of the College Board, is at the center of this nation’s fierce curriculum wars. So how come you’ve never heard of him?
Liberal writer: Common Core is setting Americans up for failure - EAGnews.org powered by... eagnews.org Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary powered by Education Action Group Foundation
Rick Scott reassessing his support for Common Core? watchdogwire.com Scott is against Common Core’s data mining component.
'Badass' Florida teachers come out against Common Core | State | Bradenton Herald www.bradenton.com Conventional wisdom held that liberals and teachers supported the new Common Core curriculum standards. Until the Badass Teachers Association crashed the party.
Governor Scott's Education Accountability Summit us5.campaign-archive2.com I, along with many organizations and thousands of individuals across the state represented by the Florida Stop Common Core Coalition, as well as many others appreciate that Governor Scott has decided to convene this education summit to deal with the four critical issues of the Common Core standards,...
TALLAHASSEE: For Common Core, a new challenge — from the left - Legislature - MiamiHerald.com www.miamiherald.com They have different qualms, but a coalition of liberal activists are joining with conservatives to slow down Common Core.
Issues: 1 of 2 Common Core State Standards ka.uvuvideo.org The goal of the Common Core State Standards is to establish national education guidelines in order to prepare today’s youth to better compete in the global economy. Politically, it unites…
Testing is Not Education: Huntsville Opt-Out Teach-In - Geek Palaver www.geekpalaver.com High-Stakes Standardized Testing doesn't inspire students to create, to think in a new way, or to make the world a better place, but parents have a voice.
New Math - Tom Lehrer www.youtube.com Hi All... I hope that you enjoy watching my video! I am a Primary School Teacher from Australia and could not resist animating this Tom Lehrer classic. Tom L...
Fordham Study Shows "Common Core" Unnecessary www.cato.org At best, efforts like "Common Core" are superfluous.
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A Sickening Turn of Events: Common Core-Approved Pornography May or May Not Be on This Year’s... www.utahnsagainstcommoncore.com What do you know about Common Core? Did you know it will take away local control of education? Get the facts and sign the petition.
Obama Pushes Common Core Standards Including Incest & Explicit Sex - Downtrend.com downtrend.com Have you heard about the Common Core? These are educational standards that have been adopted by 45 states over the past few years which are now being implemented this year. Of course, these standards are actually an Obama Regime invention, basically they came with a bribe for the states that have ad...
Courtesy busing reinstated for some Lake County students www.wesh.com Courtesy busing has been reinstated for more than 150 Lake County students who don't have a safe route to walk to school, according to the school supervisor of transportation Scott Pfender.
Rod Arquette Show 08-26-2013 www.knrs.com The "Badass Teachers Association" is opposed to Common Core. Rod speaks to Mark Naison, one of the group's founders; Alexander Burns of POLITICO joins Rod to discuss how a top donor is rallying GOP women; Carrie Lukas of Independent Women's Voice says it would be best to delay, not defund, Obamacare...
The most ridiculous ed idea of the week (so far) www.washingtonpost.com It's about the Common Core State Standards.
Florida Gov. Scott may be rethinking Common Core | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Florida Gov. Scott may be rethinking his support for Common Core Standard. He opposes data collection. Commissioner of Education Pam Stewart to convene a panel.
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One Mom's Opinion: Homeschooling & Common Core northshoreparent.com One Mom's Opinion is a guest post column at Northshore Parent. This post is from a mom who will be homeschooling her children due to Common Core.
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Metro Detroit schools following common core standards www.clickondetroit.com School districts in metro Detroit will be teaching using the common core standards when children return to school, but lawmakers in Lansing ...
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Data Mining Students Through Common Core www.thenewamerican.com A little-known but key element of Common Core is the collection of personally identifiable data on students — including affective data — for a State Longitudinal Database System. By Mallory Sauer
Public School ‘Common Core’ Recommends Pedophilia, Rape, Incest godfatherpolitics.com The Common Core Standards being used in many public schools recommends reading material that glorifies rape, incest and pedophilia.
Campaign Seeks to Dispel Common Core Data Mining Claims | Sunshine State News www.sunshinestatenews.com Although Florida remains on board with the transition to Common Core for the 2014-2015 academic year deadline, opponents to the national education
standards are gathering steam, calling for a discussion -- and abolishment -- of what they see as a federal program collecting the personal data of stude...
Please Pray for the Defeat of Common Core whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com A long list of powerful groups endorse Common Core, despite all evidence that Common Core is academically and constitutionally illegitimate: the U.S. Army endorsed it; the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,...
In Sudden shift Florida Republicans Now Oppose Common Core | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Members of the republican party of florida sent a letter opposing common core to Sen. John Thrasher. Sen Thrasher endorsed common core in a july 22 email.
The Most Dangerous Domestic Spying Program is Common Core benswann.com Earlier this year, revelations about the Department of Justice spying on the Associated Press were quickly followed by revelations that the NSA was collecting p
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Florida lawmaker introduces bill to stop Common Core from taking effect eagnews.org “The federal government doesn’t have the final say. It’s going to be the voters and the legislators.”
Elementary Students Being Taught Government Is Your ‘Family’ www.westernjournalism.com Fourth-grade students in Illinois are learning that "government is like a nation's family" because it sets rules and takes care of needs such as health care and education. Share with your friends!FacebookEmailPrintRedditDiggFree RepublicFark It! Read More on this Subject No Toddler Left Behind Means...
Common Core Criticized at Defending the American Dream Summit | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com Americans for Prosperity Foundation held their annual Defending the American Dream Summit in Orlando, FL last Friday and Sunday. The Common Core State Standards were discussed by a number of the speakers (and by the crowd on occasion). Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) reemphasized his opposition to the C...
Industry Exam Cheating at Miami Norland Senior High School watchdogwire.com Miami-Dade County for the first time substantiated cheating in a public school.
Common Core: Opposition continues to grow | The Florida Current
Sticker Shock: Over $1 Billion to implement Common Core in Florida - WatchdogWire - Florida
Common Core and more -- why don't parents get to have a say in their kids' education? www.foxnews.com When it comes to our kids' education to call and ask about the time management of the classroom is to put your children in danger of retaliation by a blustering teacher who has essentially transferred the work of educating your child back to you.
Voices Against Common Core Growing Louder | Sunshine State News www.sunshinestatenews.com While the Florida Department of Education and Florida’s teachers gear up to implement Common Core State Standards by the 2014-2015 school year, another battle is raging on through the Legislature, schools, and the public: the battle against Common Core.Several anti-Common Core groups across the stat...
Classroom chaos? Critics blast new Common Core education standards www.foxnews.com A full year before students around the nation submit to the new, federally-backed Common Core standardized tests, the federally-backed program is already causing chaos and confusion at local school board meetings, in the classroom and at the dinner table.
Nevada to consider adopting controversial 'Next Generation' science standards for K-12 students www.lasvegassun.com The Nevada Board of Education will hear public input next month on a more rigorous, but controversial set of new science standards being adopted by some states.
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Common Core Conference at the University of Notre Dame | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com From FightCommonCore.com, this will be a great conference to be held next month at Notre Dame University in Indiana. The Changing Role of Education in America: Consequences of the Common Core University of Notre DameSeptember 9, 2013 You can register online here. Please join us for a one-day confere...
Four Questions About Common-Core Implementation blogs.edweek.org With the Common Core push in full swing, a bunch of intriguing issues are about to start cropping up. While much popular press coverage has justifiably focused on the political debates, and the trade press (especially Ed Week's invaluable Catherine Gewertz) has considered what this all means for ins...
Common Core: Opponents worry about sex, tests and loss of local control | The Florida Current www.thefloridacurrent.com Florida news in the category Education
Battle Against "Common Core" Heats Up in Florida www.conservativehq.com The battle to stop “Common Core” education corruption, protect local control of tests, textbooks, and curriculum and return schools to teaching to traditional academic standards is heating up in Florida.
FL HB 25: A “Pause” is not a “Stop” watchdogwire.com A panel discussion at the Urban League in Palm Beach County on Wednesday, August 28th and interviews with parents of Magnet school students in Miami Dade County, demonstrated one component of the Common Core State ([sic] Federal) Standards which is most concerning to legislators, parents, and educat...
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Parents who home-school question Common Core's reach www.foxnews.com There are few things 9-year-old Rhett Ricardo relishes more than curling up on his family’s living room couch and delving into a novel, like “Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea” – his imagination whirling as he reads the fantastical plot about a mysterious sea monster and a submarine, his mother…
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Common Core: School grades open fault line among reformers | The Florida Current www.thefloridacurrent.com Opponents to Common Core Standards point to Tony Bennett's handling of school grades in two states to raise questions about the veracity of assessments, accountability and privacy. They also say the Core will make information available to Washington that should be kept local.
Nebraska Under Pressure to Adopt Common Core | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com Nebraska is under a ton of pressure to adopt the Common Core State Standards. A narrative is already in the works by those who advocate for them. First Nebraska Governor Dave Heineman sits on the board of Achieve. Can we say conflict of interest? Next you have the Nebraska Department of Education…
Recruiting a Common Core Truth Squad - Joe For America joeforamerica.com truth squad critics’ claims” about the Common Core standards. This isn’t the first time Duncan has asked his media friends to silence his critics. He issued ...
Clash over Common Core: Opposition grows as national education standards approach www.foxnews.com Erika Russell, a mother of four from Maine, had no intention of embroiling herself in the fight over Common Core.
Take Local Control and Rid Your School of Common Core Standards www.theblaze.com Commentary by Karen Schroeder, President of Advocates for Academic Freedom, a member of the Wisconsin Educational Communications Board, an experienced public school teacher with an MA, and an educational consultant. She provides informational seminars to promote citizen involvement at local and stat...
Flow Chart Exposes Common Core's Myriad Corporate Connections truth-out.org Morna McDermott has mapped the Common Core State Standard Initiative's corporate connections in a chart that illustrates the corporate takeover of public education.
Common Core: Critics Blast New Federally Funded Education Standards www.familysecuritymatters.org Watch the latest video at <a href=
Common Core critics warn of fuzzy math and less fiction
NO COMMON SENSE EDUCATION: Holy Corruption Batman! www.nocommonsenseeducation.com
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Top Ten Professors Calling Out Common Core's So-called College Readiness whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com I can hardly wait to quote these ten brilliant American professors who have spoken out to say that the Common Core is far from its claim of representing academic excellence; that it's a sheer acade...
Sen. Ted Cruz ‘gets it’ about Common Core standards eagnews.org Cruz understands what freedom is and how our Constitution must be preserved …
LePage signs order to keep federal education standards out of Maine schools bangordailynews.com AUGUSTA, Maine — Gov. Paul LePage signed an executive order Wednesday that prevents Maine schools from adopting federally mandated educational standards. “Higher standards play an important role in that, but the federal government does not,” wrote LePage in a prepared statement. “With my executive o...
Clash over Common Core: Opposition Grows as National Education Standards Approach joemiller.us Erika Russell, a mother of four from Maine, had no intention of embroiling herself in the fight over Common Core. SHARE THIS PAGE:
Phyllis Schlafly Blasts the Common Core iloveyoubutyouregoingtohell.org Don’t do it, Phyllis Schlafly warned states recently. Don’t fall for the hoopla about the new Common Core State Standards. Schlafly is often best remembered for her successful campaign to block the...
Common Core: Dangers And Threats To American Liberty And Education vimeo.com FreedomProject Education presents "Common Core: Dangers And Threats To American Liberty And Education" This hour long presentation will explore the new government…
Florida senators should stick to facts on Common Core, leadership says www.tampabay.com Get your facts straight before you spout off on the Common Core State Standards.
School districts in ‘local control’ states can dump Common Core standards without penalties -... eagnews.org Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary powered by Education Action Group Foundation
Join the Common Core Discussion on Facebook & Twitter — American Principles Project americanprinciplesproject.org Join with us before and during our conference at Notre Dame on Monday to engage in a discussion on Twitter and Facebook on the Common Core State Standards. 1. BACKGROUND The Changing Role of Education in America: Consequences of the
Florida Rep. Mayfield files HB 25 to stop Common Core | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Florida Rep. Debbie Mayfield filed HB 25 to stop common core. She believes it will cause florida to lose control of education federalize educational standards.
The disturbing shift underway in early childhood classrooms www.washingtonpost.com Teachers express their concern about how academics and test prep are being pushed on the youngest students.
LePage now disavows Common Core | The Portland Press Herald / Maine Sunday Telegram www.pressherald.com Elsewhere in the U.S., Common Core standards have conservatives seeing a school takeover.
Fourth Generation Teacher: My Name is Claudia and I'm a "Managed Teacher" fourthgenerationteacher.blogspot.com I promised myself I would write online. This will be a place to collect my writing on my classrooms, my reading, my political work, and the mash-up of all these.
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Top 5 Reasons Your Child is in Danger- Education in America www.voicesempower.com Your Child Has a Target on their back - By whom in Education you may ask...... Common Core and CSCOPE in Texas Schools Continue reading →
Data Tracking and the Common Core | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com One of the things that isn’t being discussed enough, but is getting attention is how data tracking of students is connected to the Common Core. It isn’t just assessment scores. Joy Pullman pointed that out in her article last week on data mining: The department is also funding and mandating databa...
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Seven facts you should know about new Common Core tests www.washingtonpost.com How much will these standardized tests really change public education?
Warning: The Common Core standards may be harmful to children | Kappan - NPE News Briefs www.networkforpubliceducation.org Joanne Yatvin JOANNE YATVIN ([email protected]) is an adjunct professor and supervisor of student teachers at the Portland State University Graduate School of Education, Portland, Ore., and is a past president of the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE). Abstract The author, a longtime t...
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Radical Elements of Common Core Curriculum Rapidly Emerging in Louisiana danetteclark.wordpress.com By Danette Clark In Louisiana, the new Common Core State Standards for Math and English are just ramping up with the recent start of the new school year, and already many parents are outraged and s...
Arne Duncan to California: No Data, No Funds | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s criticism of a bill before the California Assembly is a primer example of federal overreach. Granted, I’m not a fan of the bill either, and I’m surprised by Duncan’s reaction. The bill, AB 484 which I wrote about earlier, will speed up California’s time tab...
Bentley Says that Education Should be About Getting a Job alreporter.com Alabama's unemployment has been dropping, but the numbers of the unemployed and underemployed remain stubbornly high in an economy that officially came out of recession four years ago.
Opposition to Common Core Not Just a ‘Tea Party Thing’ thenerve.org When people of vastly different political view come together on the same side of an issue, it’s a good idea to pay attention.
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Rise of the Thought Police: Bullying Your Children Into Forsaking Their Values pjmedia.com Five-year-old Suzie heads off to kindergarten in rural Minnesota. She settles into her class routine full of activity, discovery, and friendship.Then the day takes a turn. As part of newly mandated di
Chuck Grassley: Fed Involvement in Common Core Undermines Federalism | Caffeinated Thoughts caffeinatedthoughts.com Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) in a Pioneer Institute/American Principles Project white paper criticized the federal coercision present with the Common Core.
Commissioner Richard Rothschild of County Carroll MD Discusses Common Core www.youtube.com Maryland's District 4 Commissioner Richard Rothschild discusses the Common Core curriculum. (He is unrelated to THE Rothschilds).
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Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) ceds.ed.gov The Common Education Data Standards (CEDS) project is a national collaborative effort to develop voluntary, common data standards for a key set of education data elements to streamline the exchange and comparison of data across institutions and sectors.
Porn at Buena High School in Sierra Vista: Common Core educationviews.org The following e-mail was sent to me yesterday: Subject: Porn at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona Below is a picture and an excerpt out of the book Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia....
The Report Card | Curriculum Reform for Public Schools education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org The Report Card: Reforming Revisionist Curriculums
Indiana math teacher testifies against Common Core www.youtube.com Indiana legislative hearing on Common Core, September 10, 2013
Principal: ‘I was naïve about Common Core’ www.washingtonpost.com An award-winning principal who wrote a book in support of the Common Core now says she was
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A Brief Audit of Bill Gates' Common Core Spending deutsch29.wordpress.com This is a post about Bill Gates and his money, a brief audit of his Common Core (CCSS) purchases. Before I delve into Gates accounting, allow me to set the stage with a bit of CCSS background. A Bi...
Mary Grabar - Bill Ayers: Bringing Down America, Destroying Education townhall.com In 1969, hippies and the Vietnam War were abstractions to me, glimpses from photos in an occasional Life Magazine. I had not heard about the Weathermen.
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Fifty Shades of the Common Core: how much porn is too much for high schoolers? dailycaller.com The Common Core State Standards Initiative is a project that attempts to
standardize various K-12 curricula around the country. By design, American students subject to the Common Core will experience
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My Stance on Common Core johnbarge.com Several of you have asked about my stance on the Common Core. I will try to be brief and explain my thoughts and plans for moving forward. Personally, I wish Georgia would have followed the state o...
Federal Officials Should Detail Their Common-Core Work educationviews.org Catherine Gewertz A new paper calls on the federal government to release information about how much time and money it has spent on the initiative. That recommendation, and others, are in a new pape...
NewsSun.com www.newssun.com Hear the side of Common Core the proponents do not want you to hear. You are a taxpayer ... How much is Common Core going to cost taxpayers?
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Common Core vs. Autonomy: It's All About the Money | FreedomWorks ow.ly FreedomWorks is a grassroots service center dedicated to helping activists fight for lower taxes, less government, and more freedom.
Common Core Standards bashed in Brevard forum
WORLD | The Common Core catastrophe in public schools | D.C. Innes | Sept. 9, 2013 www.worldmag.com Don’t worry. They’re fixing education in America. Again. The states have largely signed on to a national “Common Core” for public education to
Susan Ohanian: 28 questions about the Common Core vtdigger.org Editor’s note: This op-ed is by Susan Ohanian of Charlotte, a longtime teacher and author of 25 books on education policy and practice. Her website is at www.susanohanian.org.
St Johns County FL Republicans Vote Against Common Core | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org The St johns county republican executive committee voted overwhelmingly to pass an anti-Common Core Resolution last night. Many Republicans are in opposition
Common Core : Overreach or the start of school improvement?
Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core "Rigor" Nonsense Talking Points. Blah blah blah blah blah. www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
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Media Matters Accidentally Speaks the Truth, Calling Common Core ‘An Obama Administration Education www.theblaze.com By Kyle Olson EAGnews.org The radical attack group Media Matters obviously didn’t get a copy of the White House Common Core talking points. Defenders of the national education standards like to insist that the initiative was “state-led” and is therefore not a federal takeover...
Restore Oklahoma Public Education: Common Core Communist Standards? restoreoklahomapubliceducation.blogspot.com "Each according to his need,each according to his ability" Who decides what is need and what is ability in a totalitarian state?
Public Schools and Disciplinary Disaster reagangirl.com Instead of punishment or suspension for the kids in the ED classroom, their behavioral problems must be "accommodated," and their classrooms "modified" to meet their needs. In many cases, these kids throw the entire learning environment into chaos, yet because they have an ED designation governed by...
Beyond the “Rigor” Buzz: Myths and Truths about Rigor in Common Core Classrooms:
Developmentally Inappropriate Common Core Standards stopcommoncorewa.wordpress.com Dr. Megan Koschnick discusses the inappropriateness of the Common Core State Standards for K-3 at the Common Core Conference held at Notre Dame on September 9, 2013.
AZ School District Pulls Sexually Explicit Book Recommended by Common Core Standards www.breitbart.com An Arizona school district has pulled from its reading list a sexually explicit novel that is recommended as an "exemplar text" in the Common Core Standards. Parents and community members at Buena High School in Sierra Vista, Arizona expressed concern about the novel <i>Dreaming in Cuban</i> by Cr.....
Missouri Education Watchdog: Is Hairstyling a Common Core Career Ready 5th Grade Standard? Flat... www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
Maine drops GED in favor of cheaper, more flexible high school equivalency test bangordailynews.com AUGUSTA, Maine — For more than 70 years, “GED” has been synonymous with high school equivalency certificates in Maine, but that’s about to change. The state has contracted a start-up company, Educational Testing Services, to provide its High School Equivalency Test, or HiSET, program starting in Jan...
CORE: Our Common Enemy!!! (SHARE THIS VIDEO) www.youtube.com IMPORTANT MESSAGE SO READ EXTRA INFORMATION AS WELL: CORE: Making Children Stupider Around The World http://realitybloger.wordpress.com/2013/09/01/core-our-c...
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Math Teacher In Indiana Testifies On Common Core Math Horror stopcommoncorenc.org Via Truth In American Education: http://youtu.be/B5tKbHMZeQU This is not the first time
we've heard about such horrors, remember the video The unintended consequences of the TERC Investigations Math Curriculum? A 3rd grader performs a ...
Breaking News: FL Middle school quiz asks – “What Kind Of Party Animal Are You?” watchdogwire.com Students were told that they could not take this Quiz home, they had to complete it at school.
Common Core...stealth jihad directed at America's children www.lady-patriots.com While we're all focused on the Middle East right now, especially on Syria, a form of stealth jihad is sneaking into our country...a form of which affects all states...all schools...and all our chil...
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Kansas Republican Party Passes Anti-Common Core Resolution | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com The Kansas Republican Party State Central Committee passed a resolution on Saturday opposing the Common Core State Standards. This resolution was bundled with other resolutions so we are unclear of...
Arkansas: More Creeping Sharia In Public Schools; Teacher Attempts To Sneak Muslim Speaker To... gopthedailydose.com via gateway pundit Liberal Academia pushing Islam on the children. In case you missed this one, there was a report at JihadWatch and numerous other sources that a Boston school (Concord-Carlisle High) replaced the Pledge of Allegiance with a Muslim poem on the anniversary of 9/11. Now if that isn’t…
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FL Middle school quiz asks - "What Kind Of Party Animal Are You?" - WatchdogWire - Florida
Acrimony at the state Board of Education meeting | Naked Politics miamiherald.typepad.com In a unanimous vote Tuesday, the state Board of Education named interim Education Commissioner Pam Stewart to lead the department on a permanent basis. It was a rare moment of harmony in an otherwise acrimonious meeting. Earlier, outgoing board member...
Common Core trouble may be deepening; Bush allies seek help from media | Post on Politics www.postonpolitics.com In a move that may hint at the depth of the trouble in Florida over new nationwide education standards, former Gov. Jeb Bush's Foundation for Florida's Future
The federal government’s public education “consortium” watchdogwire.com Public education is being fundamentally transformed into consortiums.
Everything You’ve Ever Been Told About How You Learn Is A Lie watchdogwire.com Popular Science has published research which debunks the three myths your teachers told you about how your brain learns. This means teachers and administrators have for a long time been taking education down the wrong path. Shaunacy Ferro writes, "Many of the theories of 'brain-based' education, a m...
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Common Core Takes Center Stage at State Board Meeting | Sunshine State News www.sunshinestatenews.com Common Core takes center stage at State Board of Education Meeting and Foundation for Florida's Future press conference
FL conservative education reformers: Common Core is good policy ow.ly By William Patrick | Florida Watchdog TALLAHASSEE – Several prominent conservative education reformers have a message
Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core is a Taboo Subject for this School Board. Fight Back.... www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
Miami-Dade's GOP slaps down Common Core (takes stand against past chair, Jeb Bush) | Naked Politics miamiherald.typepad.com @MarcACaputo Miami-Dade’s Republican Party voted overwhelmingly Tuesday night to oppose the Common Core education standards as an unconstitutional “inappropriate overreach” by the federal government. The two-page resolution, part of a grassroots conservative revolt sweeping Florida and the nation, w...
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Homeschoolers alarmed by plans to track students bwcentral.org The nation’s leading homeschooling organization is warning parents that the federal government is advancing its aim of identifying and tracking students throughout their school careers, from birth through college graduation. In an online statement, William Estrada, director of federal relations
Beyond the Pause Bill HB 25: Halting the Common Core State Standards and PARCC bwcentral.org Pausing the Implementation of the CCSS On Wednesday of last week, State Representative Debbie Mayfield, from Vero Beach of Indian River County, introduced a Bill in the House which would "pause" the implementation of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) until two requirements are met. Read the
Diane Ravitch: School privatization is a hoax, “reformers” aim to destroy public schools www.salon.com Our public schools aren't in decline. And "reformers" with wild promises don't care about education — just profits
Tennessee district borrows $5.2 million to pay for Common Core-required technology... joeforamerica.com Last month, Murfreesboro City Schools Director Linda Gilbert announced the district didn’t “have the devices needed” to facilitate the new Common Core standards,
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Jeb Bush blasts criticism of Common Core as 'purely political' www.tampabay.com WASHINGTON — Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush confronted criticism of Common Core during an appearance in Washington on Wednesday, blasting it as "purely political."
Tennessee district spends $5.2M to align with Common Core standards
NC business leaders back the Common Core
Early Childhood Standards of Common Core are Developmentally Inappropriate | Truth in American... truthinamericaneducation.com Child Psychologist Dr. Megan Koschnick Criticizes Common Core Standards for K-3 as Age and Developmentally Inappropriate.
Common Core Teacher Workshop Titles – All UN, All of the Time | MVSD IB Questions www.mvsd-ib.org From the Missouri Education Watchdog we read that teachers are invited to a workshop to hone up on their social studies skills.
AMSCO AP Textbook for US Schools Rewrites Bill of Rights - Freedom Outpost freedomoutpost.com Sometimes textbooks are poorly written. The AMSCO AP textbook is one of them, but the good news is that the publisher says it is going to be revised.
Who's Protecting Children from the Unintended Damages of Common Core? whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com Guest Post by Stacie R. Tawbush: mother, math major, and common core opponent from Leeds, Alabama I'm about to be controversial but it's about damn time somebody be. For more than a year now I've t...
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Socialized Education Standards, Or Common Core, Hits Back At Detractors shark-tank.net TweetBy JAVIER MANJARRES Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush and his supporters for Common Core are not too happy with the uptick in pushback that his national education standards
initiative is receiving both in Florida, and around the country. Bush’s foundation, Florida’s Future is hitting back at Com...
CommonCoreStandards www.palmbeachschools.org The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English Language Arts and Mathematics were adopted by the Florida State Board of Education in July 2010. Florida is one of forty-five states to adopt these national standards.
Restore Oklahoma Public Education: Failing at Common Core - A First Hand Account By Oklahoma... restoreoklahomapubliceducation.blogspot.com
Fourth graders taught about ‘pimps’ and ‘mobstaz’ in Louisiana www.foxnews.com In Louisiana a school superintendent says a pimp lesson provides a teachable moment for parents and teachers.
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Louisiana Fourth-Graders Taught About “Pimps” And “Mobstaz,” School Says It’s Age Appropriate... weaselzippers.us Fourth grade students in Vermilion Parish, La. were given a homework assignment that included words like “Po Pimp” and “mobstaz,” but school officials said the worksheet was age appropriate based on an education website affiliated with Common Core education standards.
U of Minn unveils program to train Teach for America members www.startribune.com Despite growing opposition from education department alums, faculty and students, the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities announced Wednesday it is creating an eight-week alternative teacher training program for Teach for America corps members
Exclusive: Common Core Paying Off Republican Politicians? benswann.com Tennessee recently made national headlines for a single city spending $5.2 million to align with the standards of Common Core. "The new Common Core standards
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Tom Lehrer: New Math www.youtube.com For those of you who didn't know, they used to teach mathematics a little differently. Here's how they do it now. Song: New Math Artist: Tom Lehrer Album: Th...
Gates Money and Common Core -- Part IV
Students Told to Call 9-11 Hijackers “Freedom Fighters” radio.foxnews.com By Todd Starnes An Advanced Placement World Geography teacher at a Texas high school who encouraged students to dress in Islamic clothing also instructed them to refer to the 9-11 hijackers not as terrorists – but as “freedom fighters,” according to students who were in the class. FOLLOW
The Common Core money war - Stephanie Simon and Nirvi Shah www.politico.com One of the most expensive political fights in America this year isn’t over a Senate seat or a governor’s mansion. It’s about what your kids learn in school. Tens of millions of dollars are pouring into the battle over the Common Core academic standards, which aim to set a course fo...
Missouri Education Watchdog: Parent Arrested at Common Core Meeting www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
‘Is This America?’: Parent ‘Manhandled’, Arrested While Speaking Out Against Common Core at... www.theblaze.com A parent in Towson, Md., was arrested Thursday night at a public forum after vocally expressing his concerns about the Baltimore County School District's plan to use Common Core standards in its curriculum. Robert Small, a concerned father, was forcefully removed from the meeting by a police officer...
Vanessa Silkwood: Common Core plan lacks common sense www.tennessean.com Who decides what public schools teach our kids? Answering that question used to be easy.
Tell It Like It Is: "Will Common Core Dumb Down Our Kids?" www.youtube.com Nationally-recognized education experts Dr. Sandra Stotsky and Jamie Gass join "Tell It Like It Is" host Kathy Benuck for a provocative and informative discu...
Jeb Bush's latest Common Core snit fit www.onenewsnow.com Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush has now bitterly accused opponents of his federal education schemes of possessing "purely political" motives. Translation: Don't you know Jeb Bush cares more about your children than you do?
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Terrorist Professor Bill Ayers and Obama’s Federal School Curriculum www.aim.org Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents,
Reality Check: The truth behind 'Common Core' www.youtube.com It is called 'Common Core' and the idea behind it is reasonable. States working together to create national standards for education. Standards that are 'desi...
Tell It Like It Is: "Will Common Core Dumb Down Our Kids?" www.youtube.com Nationally-recognized education experts Dr. Sandra Stotsky and Jamie Gass join "Tell It Like It Is" host Kathy Benuck for a provocative and informative discu...
Meltdown in Washington: President Obama Reported Sedated Following Emotional Breakdown -... nationalreport.net "White House insiders leaked information stating the president has suffered a mental breakdown and is presently resting and under a doctors care."
Meltdown in Washington: President Obama Reported Sedated Following Emotional Breakdown -... nationalreport.net "White House insiders leaked information stating the president has suffered a mental breakdown and is presently resting and under a doctors care."
WATCH: Father Forcefully Ejected From Town Hall Forum for Asking Common Core Question foxnewsinsider.com Robert Small from Towson, Maryland was arrested for daring to question the school district's stance on Common Core curriculum.
Teacher Publishes Student Drawings Of Republican Governor In Jail www.westernjournalism.com Though she denies prompting them in any way, a Madison, Wis., teacher has published some virulently anti-conservative artwork produced by her students on a personal blog. The students (ranging from kindergarten to second grade) came up with the subject matter on their own, according to Kati Walsh, t...
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Chris Guerrieri's Education Matters: Jeb Bush's business partner gets 12 years in prison. jaxkidsmatter.blogspot.com Solutions that don’t break the bank, reinvent the wheel or marginalize our teachers are within our grasp. We could have rigorous classes, safe and disciplined schools and treat teachers like valued colleagues rather than easily replaceable cogs, and we could do so tomorrow if we wanted. The cost? Yo...
How to Create a Negative School Climate 101 teachersletterstobillgates.com Dear Mr. Gates and Mr. Duncan, I thought I had better get this to you now while it is still on my mind. At the end of the last school year, I was informed that I would be teaching 7th...
Illinois School Keeps Students—and Parents—In the Dark | Heartlander Magazine news.heartland.org The lights are off every Tuesday inside Grove Avenue Elementary School in Barrington, Illinois, thanks to the Green Tuesdays program, aimed to raise awareness about the environment. The school also asks its K-5 grade students to wear an article of green clothing Tuesdays.
Common Core’s Invalid Validation Committee | Education Freedom Ohio educationfreedomohio.org At a conference entitled “The Changing Role of Education in America: Consequences of the Common Core,” yesterday, Dr. Sandra Stotsky presented a white paper about Common Core’s validation committee, of which she was a member. As Christel points out, Dr. Stotsky has sanctioned its wide release…
Legg wants public input on Common Core plan tbo.com LAND O’ LAKES — With questions and concerns brewing about Common Core State Standards, state Sen. John Legg is hoping to pinpoint just what the problems are.
NRA-ILA | U.S. History Textbook Continues Tradition of Misinterpreting Second Amendment www.nraila.org Recent news out of Texas has pro-rights parents reaching for their children's backpacks after it was revealed that a popular textbook used to teach high school advanced placement U.S. history courses includes a shocking misinterpretation of the Second Amendment. Published by AMSCO School Publication...
Parents opting kids out of standardized testing www.nhregister.com NEW HAVEN >> When Tim Slekar decided to boycott standardized testing at his son’s school, he didn’t know what he was doing, whether it would be legal or what his plan would be.
‘Is this America?’ Parent arrested for speaking out against Common Core bwcentral.org The controversial new school curriculum known as Common Core has critics all over the country speaking out – including one parent who was arrested in Towson, Md., on Thursday. Robert Small wanted to speak at a public forum hosted by the Maryland State Board of Education. While the format called
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Petition Stop the Common Core Initiative in Louisiana www.ipetitions.com Help spread the word about this petition. Copy the code below and paste it into your website or blog to help promote this petition.
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‘Pimp’ and ‘Mobstaz’?: Parent Aghast at 4th-Grade Worksheet That Appears Connected to Common Core www.familysecuritymatters.org Acadiana's Multi-Media News Station H/T: The Blaze - Read more - click here
Rick Scott Pulls Florida Out of PARCC | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com Governor Rick Scott (R-FL) announced today that he is ordering Florida to withdraw from PARCC. He is also ordering that public comment sessions to be held in order to receive input on any alterations...
Dr. Megan Koschnick presents on Common Core at APP Conference www.youtube.com Child clinical psychologist presents on how the Common Core Standards are developmentally inappropriate for young students at a conference held at Notre Dame...
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Sound Made Up? Chicago Public School Worker Charged In Striking Woman and Stealing Food Stamps www.reagancoalition.com .
Scott order: Back off Common Core student testing system
Florida Dems Go on the Attack Over Rick Scott's Executive Order | Sunshine State News
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Did Bill Gates admit the real purpose of Common Core? www.glennbeck.com “We are dealing with evil."
CHILDEN'S VOICES Blog www.flcommoncore.net POSTINGS TELLING WHAT IS HAPPENING AND WHAT IS GOING ON
Common Core: A Lesson Plan for Raising Up Compliant, Non-Thinking Citizens www.theblaze.com As I point out in my new book, A Government Of Wolves The Emerging American Police State, there are several methods for controlling a population. You can intimidate the citizenry into obedience through force, by relaying on military strength and weaponry such as SWAT team raids, militarized police,....
President's 'Race To The Top' Deemed A Failure - HuffPost Live live.huffingtonpost.com "Race to the Top," which was heralded as Pres. Obama's signature education reform initiative to stimulate competition in schools and spur achievement has been deemed a failure. A report shows that the promises haven't come close to being fulfilled.
Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Core and the Federal Government's Announcement of Intent to... www.missourieducationwatchdog.com We reserve the right to delete comments that are profane, off topic, or spam.
Walker says Wisconsin can do better than Common Core watchdog.org By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON – We can do it better than you. That was the message from Gov. Scott Wal
Andrew Johnson - High School Textbook Edits Second Amendment ow.ly A high school Advanced Placement textbook is offering its own interpretation of the Second Amendment that significantly alters the meaning of the...
House education panel delays hearing, vote on Common Core funding www.detroitnews.com Lansing - A House education committee hearing on resuming funding for Michigan's Common Core State Standards was canceled Wednesday, after a second resolution was introduced.
Brewer Changes the Standards Name, but they Are the Same - The Free Patriot freepatriot.org Following the withdraw of Florida from the Common Core consortium known as Partnership for Assessing College and Career (PARCC), many members states had a unique opportunity to take action. Because the PARCC contracts had been made between the states ……
van Zant: Vital we teach a true account of American History | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Clay County School superintendent says "it is vital we teach a true account of american history and exceptionalism." Attend "dare to Think Conference on History
South Dakota Q&A: South Dakota’s History for Common Core | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com I participated in a forum last week in Sioux Falls, SD. Questions were complied for two months prior and the panelists were given the questions (summarized) a couple of days prior to the event. Unfortunately since forum was not moderated and rules put in place regarding time limits South Dakota Ed...
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Common Core Education - Jeb Bush Demands Parents Comply, and If You Object You'll Be Arrested -... theconservativetreehouse.com This is why we use the term "Decepticons" to identify big government Republicans who are as complicit in the elimination of freedom. Jeb Bush is one such decepticon who is trying to federalize ed...
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Missouri Education Watchdog: Common Assessment Sample Questions in the Kindergarten Longitudinal... www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
Bill Ayers: Common Core is a Disaster - The Free Patriot freepatriot.org Race to the Top is the grant program that has been used by the Obama Administration to distribute funding for education across the nation. While some funding has been been distributed to states and districts, the bulk of the funding for Race to the Top has been to two consortia. One consortium, the…
Strategies to Defeat Common Core Education Gain Momentum www.thenewamerican.com Across the country, opposition to the “Common Core” national education standards that are being pushed by the Obama administration has been surging in recent weeks. by Alex Newman
Educators Expose Dangers of Common Core National Education
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Complaint Against Science Standards Filed in Federal Court | Truth in American Education truthinamericaneducation.com (Topeka, KS) On September 26 Citizens for Objective Public Education, Inc. (COPE) filed suit in federal court against the Kansas State Board of Education and the Kansas State Department of Education to enjoin implementation of science standards designed for all students in the US. The Complaint was…
Bill Gates: ‘It would be great if our education stuff worked but…’ www.washingtonpost.com What Bill Gates said about education -- his own and his efforts to change K-12 schools -- in a new interview at Harvard.
Ohio Mom Teams-up With Thomas More Law Center to Remove Islamic... ow.ly ANN ARBOR, MI—The Olmsted Falls City School District, located in Olmsted Falls, Ohio has agreed to remove the video “30 Days: Muslim and America”...
Michelle Malkin | Rejecting Jeb Bush’s Fed Ed racket: Florida turns against Common Core « michellemalkin.com Rejecting Jeb Bush’s Fed Ed racket: Florida turns against Common Core
STARNES: School Video: I Pledge to Serve Obama gopthedailydose.com via Foxnews http://youtu.be/51kAw4OTlA0 A Wisconsin school district is apologizing after middle school students were shown a video that featured Hollywood celebrities pledging to be a servant to President Obama. “I pledge to be a servant to our president,” Demi Moore said in the “I Pledge,” video sh...
Common ground: Left and right unite in Common Core opposition watchdog.org By Ryan Ekvall | Wisconsin Reporter MADISON — An unlikely alliance of progressives and tea party activists have foun
The Turner Report: East Newton passes resolution against Common Core Standards rturner229.blogspot.com This blog features observations from Randy Turner, a former teacher, newspaper reporter and editor. Send news items or comments to [email protected]
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How prepared for college are Alabama high school graduates? Search the database to see... blog.al.com New data from the Alabama Department of Education shows Alabama high school students may have some catching up to do to meet the more rigorous demands of the state's new college and career readiness standards.
English teacher writes "The Ugly Heart of Common Core" stopcommoncorenc.org A disturbing report from an English teacher, please read the full post I will link to below. Regardless of the age of your children, grandchildren, nieces, nephews, neighbors – this is a must read. Parents must be fully engaged in every element of your ...
Expert Blames Quran for Inciting Terror www.youtube.com The horrible massacre in Kenya, which left at least 67 dead, has refocused the world's attention on Al-Shebab and Islamic Terrorism. Robert Spencer, founder ...
UNITED NATIONS, CSCOPE & TEXAS EDUCATION www.redhotconservative.com It took me almost a year of researching to find out why there was such a veil of secrecy surrounding CSCOPE. I discovered it has been the implementation of a radical change in the way Texas studen...
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Educational Decay: Loss of 18th Century Rigor wyomingagainstcommoncore.wordpress.com I have recently been reading Teaching A Generation of Leaders: A Thomas Jefferson Education for the 21st Century by Oliver Van DeMilleIle This book was given to me by my sister, who was leaps and b...
Special Interest Groups to defend Common Core stopcommoncorenc.org The special interest led Common Core State Standards are being defended by, well the special interests. Is anyone surprised? A recent post 40 CEOs Sit Down with Arne Duncan highlighted the campaign to come. More from Education Week (emphasis mine), ...
Missouri Education Watchdog: What Would This Mom Think About Common Assessments and Data... www.missourieducationwatchdog.com
WATCH School Teaching Kids "I Pledge To Be a Servant To Obama" www.youtube.com Middle School plays video for students teaching them to be a Servant To Obama
Anti-Common Core parents and teachers at Saturday rally: 'We're not misinformed' www.nola.com More than 200 parents and teachers rallied in front of the Louisiana Department of Education in Baton Rouge on Saturday to implore the state's elected education officials to block the educational standards known as Common Core.The protest was organized by...
Great YouTube videos and websites on Common Core www.examiner.com If you’ve attended any of the school board sponsored cheerleading sessions on Common Core or read through their website propaganda, you may be looking for infor
Common Core Review Underway www.gpb.org The state school board released a draft plan [today/Thursday] for reviewing the Common Core curriculum. The review follows persistent complaints that the curriculum dictates how to teach children. Some state school officials say the review probably won’t put an end to the doubts.
A War on HomeSchooling kathystock.com **I wrote this article on behalf of my dear friends, Steve and Kristina Spell. Please read and share. Regardless of your personal views on homeschooling, this situation is about an attack on choice...
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WORLD | Uncommon uprising | Daniel James Devine | Oct. 5, 2013 www.worldmag.com EDUCATION | A math problem sparked a statewide revolt against new public education standards in Indiana. And that revolt against Common Core has now gone national
COPE Sues Kansas State BOE Over Common Core Science Standards - The Free Patriot freepatriot.org Citizens for Objective Public Education, Inc. (COPE) cite violation of the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are in their suit over the new science standards in federal court against the Kansas State Board of Education and the Kansas State Department of Education. The s...
Wisconsin students forced to watch video of celebrities pledging to serve President Obama -... eagnews.org Education Research, Reporting, Analysis and Commentary powered by Education Action Group Foundation
Common Core: The Great Debate www.cato.org What is the Common Core? Supporters assert that it is a high-quality, voluntarily adopted set of national mathematics and language arts standards that will help transform American education by aiming all students at uniform, lofty goals. Opponents argue that adoption of the Core was federally coerce...
Second Grade Math ~ South Dakotans Against Common Core www.sdagainstcommoncore.com
Baltimore County schools boss admits Common Core implementation has been disaster dailycaller.com In a blunt letter to teachers and administrators on Monday, Baltimore County school Superintendent Dallas Dance admitted that his school district's implementation of the national Common Core has been
Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare Students for STEM pioneerinstitute.org BOSTON – National mathematics standards adopted by 45 states and the District of Columbia that supporters say are designed to make high school graduates “college- and career-ready” and improve the critical science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) pipeline do not prepare students to study STE...
"Common Core is just the "smoke" hiding the fire www.saveamericafoundation.com What Governor Scott's executive order and letters DO accomplish-and then what they DO NOT accomplish.
Common Core For All - Tea Party Tribune www.teapartytribune.com “The schools … are organized in a highly centralized government-run system. They have the following characteristics in common: they are overwhelmingly...
WILLIAM (Bill) BENNETT OUT PROMOTING COMMON CORE MATERIALS - WHY? www.voicesempower.com Many have wondered- How could it possibly be that William (Bill) Bennett is supporting Common Core. Continue reading →
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How Common Core is Slowly Changing My Child mrsmomblog.com A Letter to Commissioner King and the New York State Education Department:I have played your game for the past two years. As an educator, I have created my teaching portfolio with enough evidence ...
Defeating Common Core fpeusa.org FreedomProject Education is Rooted firmly in Judeo-Christian values, FPE’s live Online School offers a classical education for students from Kindergarten through High School, an education similar to that received by America’s Founding Fathers, promoting liberty, citizenship, and independent thinking...
Common Core Standards and Data Collection Connection www.moagainstcommoncore.com Public coalition organized to stop Missouri from participation in the Common Core State Standards.
Michelle Malkin | Jeb Bush’s latest Common Core snit fit « michellemalkin.com Jeb Bush’s latest Common Core snit fit
Common Core Curriculum - A Trojan Horse for Education Reform www.youtube.com http://shop.arccopy.com/Common-Core_c6.htm An untried and unvetted fad is being rolled out at all grade levels, in all public schools across the nation, exce...
Must-see Common Core math problems of the day [pics] twitchy.com "Number sense," courtesy of Common Core? We don't know the source of that math problem, but based on what we've seen elsewhere, it has all the hallmarks of Common Core math. Now try your hand at th...
Parents, teachers join pockets of rebellion against Common Core
Florida to hold hearings, take public comment on Common Core standards - Orlando Sentinel
Florida Mother of Six Fights "The Machine" of Jeb Bush and Bill Gates, FLA Legislature whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com "All these groups want accountability from our children but I demand accountability from them" - Debbie Higginbotham, Florida mother ----------------------------------------------------------------...
Florida Stop Common Core Coalition Calls Out Governor Rick Scott watchdogwire.com Governor Scott of playing the citizens of Florida
Parents, teachers join pockets of rebellion against Common Core usnews.nbcnews.com Editor's note: This story is one in a series on education issues featured at the 2013 Education Nation summit in New York City on Oct. 6-8. To learn more, please visit EducationNation.com.
Christine Rousselle - Common Core Math is Ridiculous townhall.com Quick! What’s 15-7?
PARCC Releases RFP | PARCC www.parcconline.org Washington, D.C. – Oct. 31, 2012 –The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), a 23-state consortium working together to create next generation assessments in English language arts/literacy and mathematics, released through Indiana's Department of Administration (IDOA...
Expert Explores Link Between Federal Data Mining and Common Core www.thenewamerican.com In an interview with The New American's Dr. Duke Pesta, the Heartland Institute's Joy Pullmann outlined the link between the “Common Core” nationalization of schooling, the federally funded tests that go with the standards, and the vast data-gathering apparatus being erected. by Alex Newman
New American August 16, 2013 Feature Story on Common Core www.scribd.com New American August 16, 2013 Feature Story on Common Core - Free download as Text file (.txt), PDF File (.pdf) or read online for free.
Seventh-grade test question on Bloomberg's career worries teachers, parents www.nydailynews.com
Common Core Corruption: Pearson Publishing Investigated | education-curriculum-reform-government-schools.org Paul Horton a teacher at the University of Chicago High School demands an investigation of corruption of Common Core Standards. Pearson payoffs may confirm it.
Common Core Q&A: Explaining new standards for Florida students
Common Core Standards Flunk Logic 101, Again
Common Core, Legal Standards...Part I of 3 thepatriotspress.com Common Core, Legal Standards...Part I of 3 Written by Thais Alvarez on 06 October 2013. Posted in Guest ArticlesView CommentsPublisher's note: I have recently had the privilege of meeting Thais Alvarez. She is a remarkable young woman, an attorney, and a scholar who not only teaches at the grade sc...
From Junk Bonds to Junk Schools: Cyber Schools Fleece Taxpayers for Phantom Students and Failing... www.prwatch.org The data is in and K12 Inc.'s brand of full-time public "cyber school" is garbage. Not surprising for an educational model kicked off with a $10 million investment from junk-bond king Michael Milken.
http://dailycaller.com/2013/ 10/02/ common-core-requires-9-year-old s-to-be-expert-typists/
Common Core creates rift in Rockingham schools
Let the sun shine on common core test questions
Malala Yousafzai brings fear and loathing to her home town
Common Core Reaches a New Low – Check This Out! | www.independentsentinel.com www.independentsentinel.com The first story takes a bizarre social work approach to learning. The next story is about a cheating husband and father, and, again, it’s for third grade.
Common Core assignment makes sixth-graders SCRAP Bill of Rights amendments
Common Core Critics “Deeply Disappointed” By Florida Hearings stateimpact.npr.org Florida's Common Core hearings aren't until next week, but the criticism has already started. In September, Gov. Rick Scott asked Florida to sever its financial ties to a consortium of states--the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers, or PARCC--that's developing a new asse...
Worksheet asks children to remove parts of the Bill of Rights (Includes interview) www.digitaljournal.com A student in Bryant School District in Arkansas brought home a worksheet that presented her with a scenario that referred to the Bill of Rights as “outdated” and that as part of a special committee she would need to throw out two of the Amendments.
FL senator wants to stop electronic scanning of K-12 students watchdog.org By William Patrick | Florida Watchdog TALLAHASSEE — Once considered science fiction, eye scanning and electronic f
Sixth graders asked to revise and edit 'outdated' Bill of Rights www.bizpacreview.com As opposition to Common Coreeducational standards continues to build, much to the chagrin of progressives on both sides of the aisle, a sixth grade history assignment referring to the Bill of Rights as “outdated” has one parent wondering what her child is being taught.
http://www.zerotothree.org/assets/emails/docs/ztt-core-competencies-summary-recommendations.pdf www.zerotothree.org
Common Core assignment: Remove two amendments from 'outdated' Bill of Rights www.examiner.com A mother in the Bryant School District in Arkansas -- a district using the controversial Common Core curriculum -- was surprised to learn her sixth-grade daught
Oregon Deputy Superintendent, Rob Saxton: All you kids belong to us www.youtube.com Oregon's Deputy Superintendent, Rob Saxton, spoke at a PTA meeting on October 5th. He talked about the newly adopted P20 system. This system will now control...
TOS Sweet Critique: Pearson Homeschool myWorld Social Studies - Grade 5 - Sweet Phenomena sweetphenomena.com WHAT: Pearson Homeschool myWorld Social Studies – Grade 5 COST: $69.99 RECOMMENDED AGES: Grade 5 CONTACT WHAT IS PEARSON HOMESCHOOL MYWORLD SOCIAL STUDIES? Pearson Homeschool has tried to provide homeschooling parents with curricula that makes use of a variety of learning methods: game-like drills...
Common Core Education Standards Fashioned By Big Business - www.capitolhilldaily.com Johnnie-Ann Campbell exposes the Common Core education standards for what they really are: A ploy by big business to rake in more cash.
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Jane Robbins: Stop Common Core Series — American Principles Project americanprinciplesproject.org by American Principles Project on April 9, 2013 Jane Robbins discusses the Common Core Standards, looking at their origins, the federal and private interests behind their creation, and the threat they represent to parents? and teachers?
Common Core foe in Ohio House runs into opposition
Proposed Bill Would Drop Common Core Standards
Mercedes Schneider Explains: Who Paid for the Common Core Standards
What the Common Core means in Howard County
Common Core assessments have NY kindergarteners crying, ‘scared’ eagnews.org “They don’t know letters, and you have answers that say A, B, C or D … they break down, they cry."
BRICK IN THE WALL: COMMON CORE'S Plan is to Raise Up Compliant, Non-thinking Citizens - Clash Daily clashdaily.com As I point out in my new book, A Government of Wolves: The Emerging American Police State, there are several methods for controlling a population. You can intimidate the citizenry into obedience through force, relying on military strength and weaponry such as SWAT team raids, militarized police, and...
Common Core Hearings! Pre-hearing rally and press conference!
Parents Launch Executive Order to Stop Common Core and to Stop Student Data Mining whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com This week, a group of Florida parents, supported by parents and educators nationwide, have released an executive order, demanding an end to Common Core and the parentally unauthorized student data ...
Common Core comments coming in fast, Florida education department says www.orlandosentinel.com More than 3,500 people have commented on Common Core since the Florida Department of Education asked on Oct. 3 for online feedback, the department said today. By comparison, 433 people commented on Common Core back in 2010, just before Florida adopted the language arts and m...
St. Tammany School Board approves anti- Common Core resolution
Sen. Tim Scott: Common Core Is a Threat to Education
Non-profit site helps schools implement Common Core
State Board to vote on Common Core extra items - Orlando Sentinel
Commissioner King addresses big, critical crowd on Common Core
Common Core 2.0, Oregon's "P20W" Project Goes Prenatal - Watchdog Wire - Northwest
Colorado 6th Graders, Parents, Required To Take "Righty/Lefty" Survey standupforthetruth.com Today we received an email from one of our Stand Up For The Truth listeners about a very disturbing assignment given in the Aurora Public School District in Colorado: "Attached is an assignment giv...
America Is Raising A Generation Of Young People Who Can't Do Math www.businessinsider.com A new OECD study finds that young adults in America have some of the worst math skills in the developing world.
A teacher’s troubling account of giving a 106-question standardized test to 11 year olds www.washingtonpost.com Here's the step-by-step deconstruction of how she gave the test and how her kids reacted.
MT: Common, to the Core watchdogwire.com Common Core is an untested, unpiloted program that is going to cost the state of Montana an estimated thirty four million dollars to implement. It is not a smart use of taxpayer money.
Teacher-training schools under pressure to prepare for Common Core | Hechinger Report hechingerreport.org Informing the Public about Education through Quality Journalism
Presentation Against Common Core State Standards at the Miami-Dade Libertarian Party Meeting www.youtube.com In this informational video,I address the following topics on the Common Core State Standards: (1) CCSS from an educational standpoint (Math, English, Histor...
Reading at five: Why? seenmagazine.us Kindergarten and preschool education in the U.S. have changed radically since the 1970s when I began teaching young children. The play-based, experiential programs of the past are rarely seen in kindergartens and are even disappearing from preschools
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Coptic Christian Leaders Condemn Hate from Obama’s Islamist Adviser | FrontPage Magazine frontpagemag.com VERY disturbing if true Bishop Angaelos, Coptic Pope Tawadros II's personal representative in the United Kingdom wrote
3rd Grade Teacher: What My Students are Losing as a Result of the NYSED Imposed Common Core Modules www.markgarrison.net On September 23, I participated as a panelist at the forum, “A Report from the Trenches: How High Stakes Reform Agenda Impacts Stakeholders,” which was held at Hartwick College in Oneonta, New York...
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VIDEO: Common Core meetings canceled; post your comments here
Even a 15-Year-Old can Connect the Dots! www.arkansasagainstcommoncore.com By: Denna Slade Grace Lewis, founder and organizer of Arkansas Against Common Core, did not know the power she would unleash when she asked a technologically savvy local youth to help her create a...
National Common Core curriculum standards topic of discussion in Muskegon Tuesday www.mlive.com When it comes to Common Core curriculum standards, are you in favor of them? Opposed? Or don't know what the heck all the commotion is about?
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