From the Home School Legal Defense Association: Some commentators have expressed concerns about a few of the organizations she is associated with. She is currently a member of the board of Great Lakes Education Project…
Topic: Common Core
Poll: Public Support for Common Core has Fallen by 40%
From the School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute: The survey, titled “Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the EdNext Poll,” conducted by Education Next, a journal published by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program…
The College Board’s SAT Money Hustle
A recent report alleged that the College Board, the architects of the college entrance exams known today as the SAT, is becoming a profit-driven (yet taxpayer-funded) machine, instead of a business focused on the greater…
New York Educators Lowered the Standards to Pass Common Core Tests
From the New York Post: The state this year lowered the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated. In…
Rebranding Common Core
The unpopularity of the Common Core educational standards is not causing it’s proponents to rethink it but to rebrand it. “In 2010, every state but Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia adopted Common Core State Standards,…
Actress and Homeschooling Advocate Sam Sorbo: Feds are Trying to Bully Parents to Enroll Kids in Common Core
From the Daily Caller: Sam Sorbo is a passionate, dedicated homeschooling mom of three and talk radio host. Often on Fox News, Sorbo is an actress, former model and biomedical engineer from Duke University, who…
Report: Common Core Doesn’t Prepare Children for College
This from The Daily Signal: A recently released report confirms what Common Core critics have suspected all along: Common Core State Standards do not adequately prepare students for college-level work. The ACT report finds many…
End Common Core, say California Scholars
Government mandates are not looked upon in a good light in America, and Common Core is one manifestation of such animosity between citizen and government: The California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education (CAREE), which…
Common Core Great for Homeschooling
The Heritage Foundation published a special report with essays from several education experts, detailing the background and the effects of Common Core. Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and…
Common Core: Show Me the Money
It turns out that Common Core’s creators might be demonstrating the same ethos Cuba Gooding’s character demonstrated in the film Jerry Maguire when he said, “Show me the money.” “An undercover journalist for a nonprofit…
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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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