
Americans were told the Common Core standards initiative would allow more students – particularly low-income and minority students – to achieve “college ready” status in order to be successful in higher education. The supposedly more “rigorous” standards were sold as the way to achieve greater preparation for advanced education for American students. Recent evidence, however, demonstrates this is not the case.
by Dr. Susan Berry25 Oct 2015, 5:23 PM PST0

GOP presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson moved up in Iowa to tie GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, but Trump remains the top pick among GOP voters in New Hampshire and South Carolina, according to a new CBS News poll.
by Alex Swoyer25 Oct 2015, 10:29 AM PST0

A Gallup poll released on October 20 shows that a majority of Americans believe more concealed carry equals less crime.
by AWR Hawkins23 Oct 2015, 8:21 PM PST0

The study, which appears in the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry, finds that many individuals who are prescribed and take antidepressant medications may not actually have a depressive disorder, and that such drugs are often used by patients who do not meet the diagnostic criteria of depression.
by Dr. Susan Berry23 Oct 2015, 2:48 PM PST0

A Gallup poll finds that Americans feel crime is on the rise, with more Americans saying there is more crime this year than last year.
by Warner Todd Huston22 Oct 2015, 10:06 PM PST0

A new report sent to Congress reveals that three quarters of American eighth graders tested below the proficiency level in geography last year.
by Dr. Susan Berry21 Oct 2015, 7:55 AM PST0

A report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) finds the proportion of high school seniors who smoke marijuana is higher than the proportion that smokes cigarettes.
by Dr. Susan Berry21 Oct 2015, 5:46 AM PST0

More than half of U.S. states reported job losses in September, as hiring slowed, a new report finds.
by Warner Todd Huston20 Oct 2015, 6:57 PM PST0

For the first time in almost three years, President Obama has risen above 50 percent in his approval rating by striking 51 percent in the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll. The latest rating is a hike from Obama’s lowest rating
by Warner Todd Huston19 Oct 2015, 7:33 PM PST0

What are the greatest sports franchises of all time? The Yankees may come to mind for many. How about the Los Angeles Lakers? The Celtics? Maybe it’s the New England Patriots. Actually the above teams fall far behind the number one team.
by Robert Wilde14 Oct 2015, 1:00 AM PST0

Donald Trump and Ben Carson combine for nearly half of the total GOP primary vote, according to a poll released by Fairleigh Dickinson University on Friday.
by Breitbart News10 Oct 2015, 2:54 PM PST0

Billionaire Donald Trump is still sitting high atop his perch as the frontrunner in the 2016 Republican presidential primary race, but Sen. Marco Rubio is gaining significant momentum and is right on his heels.
by Javier Manjarres7 Oct 2015, 7:57 PM PST0

San Francisco is enjoying the benefits of a new tech boom, but black residents are left behind–or leaving.
That’s the story told by new data on incomes, which show that white, Asian and Latino residents saw increases in 2014, but blacks saw their incomes fall by nearly 5 percent,
by Joel B. Pollak5 Oct 2015, 4:00 AM PST0

Symantec reported that most of Wifatch’s code is written in the Perl programming language; once Wifatch attaches to a device, it connects to a peer-to-peer network used to distribute threat updates.
by William Bigelow4 Oct 2015, 4:45 PM PST0

CNN reported Wednesday that a U.S. official has confirmed that “the United States is pulling spies from China as a result of the cyberattack that compromised the personal data of 21.5 million government workers.”
by John Hayward30 Sep 2015, 10:35 PM PST0

On Friday, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) told GOP legislators he will resign in October. Boehner’s decision was likely prompted by at least 30 House Republicans who had threatened a no-confidence vote, which would leave Boehner in the uncomfortable position of needing Democratic votes to remain in his position.
by William Bigelow26 Sep 2015, 8:11 PM PST0

Donald Trump has a better shot at the presidency than Sen. Marco Rubio and is just as likely to win the 2016 election as Jeb Bush, say two embarrassed political scientists.
by Neil Munro25 Sep 2015, 4:14 PM PST0

Seventy-two percent of GOP supporters would prefer either Donald Trump or Ben Carson over the establishment’s favorite, ex-Gov. Jeb Bush, according to a new Ipsos poll of 572 GOP supporters.
by Neil Munro24 Sep 2015, 3:26 PM PST0

A new national CNN poll shows that Carly Fiorina is now in second place among Republican presidential candidates followed closely by Ben Carson.
by Charlie Spiering20 Sep 2015, 8:10 AM PST0

Establishment elites repeat in an echo chamber that voters don’t care about social issues or, alternatively, that voters favor liberal positions on these issues, so either way, Republicans should avoid them. But Republican candidates are ignoring this coastal-elite groupthink by tackling these issues, and polls show that voters do in fact deeply care about what kind of culture we live in.
by Ken Klukowski17 Sep 2015, 6:25 PM PST0

GOP 2016 frontrunner Donald Trump is now being viewed more favorably by Republican voters, according to a new poll.
by Alex Swoyer14 Sep 2015, 4:31 PM PST0

Lt Gen Michael T. Flynn, who served as director of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) under President Obama, recommended this weekend that Hillary Clinton’s Top Secret security clearance be immediately revoked, due to concerns she incorrectly handled classified information in establishing a private, insecure email server for her personal use.
by Jordan Schachtel7 Sep 2015, 9:53 AM PST0

“Next year the College Board will roll out a major change in the SAT that will make comparisons with past results impossible, and allow Common Core proponents to argue ‘these are different and better tests, so don’t pay attention to past results,'” Wurman states. “We are lucky that this year’s SAT has not changed yet, so the decline is clearly visible and cannot be hidden or denied.” The College Board president is David Coleman, the so-called “architect” of the Common Core standards.
by Dr. Susan Berry7 Sep 2015, 6:49 AM PST0

Pundits are trying to explain why Donald Trump is at the top of the GOP’s polls, and many are grasping at the charge that he’s leading because of support from the “low information voter.”
by Alex Swoyer3 Sep 2015, 6:57 PM PST0

The White House may activate targeted sanctions against companies and individuals in China as part of a comprehensive response against Beijing’s cyber attacks on U.S. industry.
by Jordan Schachtel31 Aug 2015, 7:56 PM PST0