Dr. Susan Berry

At a conference of the Annual Strategic Data Project (SDP) last year, Common Core “architect” and current president of the “non-profit” College Board, David Coleman, praised the collection of student data via the Common Core State Standards initiative.  Furthermore, he welcomed

Though former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee told his Fox News Channel audience in early December he was no longer supporting the Common Core standards for which he had avidly campaigned, his message to one of the groups that created the

Nearly 140 teachers and administrators of the Philadelphia school district have been implicated in one of the largest cheating scandals in the United States. District officials say they expect to discipline or terminate several district employees in connection with the

The pervasive use of generic over brand-name medications was anticipated to be a money-saver, but recently prices are soaring, even up 6,000 percent for some common drugs that were once fairly low-cost. As National Journal reports, pharmacists are perplexed about

The state of Kentucky withdrew Friday from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC), its testing consortium for the Common Core assessments. According to Education Week, Gov. Steven Beshear (D), Education Commissioner Terry Holliday, and State

In the wake of the National Education Association’s (NEA) decision to support the Common Core State Standards yet urge changes in the initiative’s “implementation,” Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D-WFP) called for a slowdown of a new teacher evaluation program in

On Thursday Pope Francis delivered a statement to the University of Notre Dame in the United States that it should be an “uncompromising witness…to the Church’s moral teaching,” and to resist “efforts, from whatever quarter, to dilute that indispensable witness,”

Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles read aloud the letters of children of illegal aliens that were addressed to Pope Francis and collected by a coalition of groups seeking rights for illegal immigrants. Gomez said he hoped the letters would

Though he never mentioned the controversial Common Core State Standards by name, President Obama took credit for funding the initiative in his State of the Union address Tuesday night, promising to urge expansion of the funding to include pre-K students,

A small pro-life group in Waco, Texas, that plans to boycott Girl Scout cookies to protest the girls’ organization’s ties to Planned Parenthood and abortion has been joined by other national pro-life groups. John Pisciotta, head of Pro-Life Waco, has

On Tuesday, Gov. Scott Walker (R) of Wisconsin urged his state’s school superintendent to revoke the teachers’ license of Andrew Harris, a middle school teacher who was found to have viewed pornography and other inappropriate sexual material at the school.

Though the authors and supporters of the Common Core standards have repeatedly stated the standards are a “state-led” initiative, former Obama senior adviser David Axelrod was recorded speaking the truth at a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) debate on

As National School Choice Week (NSCW) gets underway, supporters of education freedom for parents and their children are facing opposition from both the Obama administration and the new Common Core State Standards that could eventually force all students in America

A Connecticut middle school teacher who wrote that the Common Core State Standards are preparing students to be “workers, rather than thinkers” has touched a nerve throughout the country and intensified the debate further about the controversial new standards. Elizabeth

Common Core State Standards (CCSS) proponents frequently use the talking point that the standards initiative was “state-led.” A group of governors (National Governors Association Center) and state school officers are often said to have coordinated the standards. A closer look,

A Texas woman who was pregnant and said to be brain-dead was removed from life support at a Fort Worth hospital Sunday in accordance with an order from a Tarrant County district court. According to the Associated Press, Marlise Munoz

Catholic schools have long produced graduates who show higher levels of achievement on standardized assessments than those from public schools. Yet, 100 Catholic dioceses embraced the Common Core standards based on the promise that they would provide a “rigorous” foundation

A man whose biological mother was the victim of rape, yet courageously chose to continue her pregnancy, has made his life’s work ensuring that every child in America has the same opportunity he was given. The 41st annual March for

As hundreds of thousands of marchers gathered in Washington D.C. this week for the annual March For Life, NARAL president Ilyse Hogue penned a defensive op-ed in Politico, slamming pro-lifers for restricting “a woman’s freedom” and declaring 2014 to be

Thousands of students from around the nation are gathering in Washington, D.C. on January 22nd for the 41st annual March for Life. Since that same date in 1973 when the Supreme Court decriminalized abortion in Roe v. Wade and Doe

In an interview last week, late-term abortion star Wendy Davis (D) admitted there are some discrepancies in the chronological details of her personal history as related by both herself and her aides.  This is an important issue, especially since her

A Hillsdale College professor has penned a book he hopes will serve as a user’s guide for parents, citizens, and state lawmakers to help them fully grasp what will actually happen in classrooms where the Common Core standards are being

A Common Core-aligned elementary school homework assignment in a Jefferson County, Colorado school district tells children that by 2512, Kansas will be an oceanfront state, that the “Smokey” Mountains [sic] will become the “Smokey” Islands [sic], and that a sharp