Malkin’s great take on Jeb Bush and why he is so adamant to defend his Common Core stance (i.e. it’s about the money). She brought back what she wrote last year, and it still rings…
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Bipartisan Common Core Opposition
Contrary to popular belief, aka news media coverage, opposition to the Common Core education reforms of President Obama is stretching across party lines. “The Democratic Party in the state of Washington just passed a resolution…
Common Core: Against Gifted Students
Now, after lauding Common Core’s benefits, Common Core supporters are scrambling to justify the oft-maligned education standards. At the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, UConn education professor Jonathan Plucker criticized school districts for using the standards…
Oklahoma could Ban AP Classes in High School since it’s Common Core 2.0
State representative Dan Fisher may have a point here, as recent years have shown that Common Core is spawning adjustments in Advanced Placement (AP) courses. Rep. Fisher said that the lack of coursework in American…
Bobby Jindal unveils Plan to Repeal Common Core
He’s taken up the anti-Common Core mantle, and good for him.
Questioning Common Core
Michael Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute has nine question for Common Core opponents, which I would like to answer with eight questions of my own. First, Mr. Petrilli: Do you mean that you…
Common Core on the Ropes
The Common Core education standards are not advancing as supporters had hoped and the Obama Administration that promoted them bears much of the blame, according to a journal of the education establishment. “Common Core has…
What GOP 2016 Candidates Have to Say about Common Core
With a little less than two years to go until the 2016 presidential contest, GOP contenders are staking out positions on the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms that are markedly to the right of…
Where Common Core Pays $$$
It’s interesting that the people who are usually in a fruitless search for Republican fat cats have failed to notice the actual ones for whom Common Core math actually does add up. On September 20,…
Jeb Bush and Common Core in 2016
As 2014 drew to a close, at least three probable contenders for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 have taken fairly clear positions on the Common Core education reforms favored by the Obama Administration. Former…