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TEXAS–Concerned suburban Dallas dad Andrew Bennett spent the past three months raising questions about Common Core materials coming home from the Northwest Independent School District (NISD) middle school.  Although Texas did not adopt the Common Core State Standards Initiative, it

The Common Core-aligned practice field tests are coming to American public schools in April; but it is only in preparation for their official launch in Spring 2015. This year’s tests will not even be graded, according to the Smarter Balanced Assessment

Mayday! Mayday! SOS! All nouns on deck!  Man the semantics!  Fire up the phrases!  Don’t shoot till you see the whites of the “I’s”. You, over there, grab a round of idioms. Load up on similes and, if you do nothing

Remember when MSNBC’s  Melissa Harris Perry enraged a nation in that infamous MSNBC promo where she said, at “we’ve always had kind of a private notion of children?,” adding “we haven’t had a very collective notion of ‘These are our

Texas bans Common Core was the headline read around the nation on June 10, 2013 when Governor Rick Perry signed HB 462, the legislation that was supposed to impede the use of the federally led education mandate, the Common Core

House Bill 5 (HB 5) is the education legislation that created the new Texas College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) during the 83rd Legislative Session. Since becoming law, HB 5’s been kicking up a lot of controversy.  For starters, HB

Every generation has a defining issue and no issue more defines a generation than how it educates its children.  Education influences the future, a society, its culture.  History repeatedly teaches us the same lesson: freedom and liberty breed a very