Even when teachers don’t appear to be complaining about Common Core they actually are, because CC is so unpopular that bureaucrats and politicians try to camouflage it. Yet and still, like the spots on a…
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Jeb Bush, John Kasich Distance Themselves from Common Core Support
Looks like they are backtracking way too fast for comfort on their past support of Common Core, huh?
Education Secretary’s Kids Don’t Have to do Common Core Testing
Why is that? Because Arne Duncan’s children are enrolled in private schools, at least that’s what the College Fix reported. Outrageous that he pushes for these Common Core standards, but his own children do not…
Common Core Crack-Up
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in education continue to crumble when they encounter reality. “Not a single junior at Seattle’s Nathan Hale High School showed up to take this spring’s Smarter Balanced tests (SBAC—one…
Common Core’s Slow Collapse
As a public service, we try to track the progress, or lack thereof, of the latest top-down education reform concocted by elites and insiders—Common Core. We are aided immeasurably by the Heartland Institute which publishes…
Professor, who helped create Common Core Curriculum, has Lesson that Supports Hamas
Not encouraging and another reason to not trust Common Core: “A “Whose Jerusalem?” workshop created by a Boston University professor that’s been taught in many high schools in recent years and was added to the Common Core-approved national…
Creativity and Common Core
This SXSWedu session’s description sums up the matter: “What if job performance was measured by a year-end test aiming to boil all of our work down to a single score? As meaningless as that would…
Delaying Common Core the Chicago Way
Opposition to Common Core continues to spread well across party lines, no matter how much the educational establishment tires to minimize the blowback. “Illinois state officials have threatened to withhold funding from school districts that…
Michelle Malkin: Hillary Clinton’s Common Core-type Past
As always, Michelle Malkin does her homework and digs up facts about Common Core and their supporters. Hillary Clinton, recently-announced Democratic presidential candidate for 2016, is among them.
The Left Protests Common Core
Opposition to the Common Core education reforms embraced by the Obama Administration is growing, and not just on the political right. The latest issue of the decidedly left-wing journal Rethinking Schools carries two items on…
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Book Review: Is ‘The Dying Citizen’ a Prediction of America’s Future?
America’s ongoing and seemingly-constant crises have left Americans scrambling to find a sense of normalcy and safety. Just in time, to cut through the chaotic bombardment of conflicting messages and opinions while providing a voice…
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