Last week, an inflammatory Top 10 list in an article flagrantly and falsely accused Texas of being “The Most (Overtly) Racist State in America.” The list was published by a non-profit education organization called Empathy Educates. One of this group’s
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) said Thursday evening he is opposed to the Common Core standards and does not want his state to participate in them. Jindal, considered to be a potential 2016 Republican presidential candidate, spoke to an audience
As the school year winds down, high-stakes testing isn’t the only controversial classroom issue to shelve until the 2014-15 school year. Grade inflation looms in the background. It’s a huge problem from public to private school and colleges and universities. It has
Members of grassroots parent groups fighting to defeat the Common Core standards in Louisiana knew they were up against tough and well-funded competition in the form of special interest groups lobbying for the nationalized education standards. What parents did not
A top adviser to former Florida Governor Jeb Bush is trying to spin that Bush’s embrace of Common Core will not hurt him if he becomes a presidential candidate in 2016. “Common Core issue much more of a paper tiger
Picture a state that rejected the Common Core State Standards, yet strangely, Common Core conferences convene around the calendar with some of the biggest names in progressive education reform. Yes, that state would be Texas. In fact, Common Core kick-offs
In the wake of the Oklahoma state legislature’s overwhelming approval of a bill to repeal and replace the Common Core standards, Restore Oklahoma Public Education (R.O.P.E.) has begun a letter-writing campaign to urge Fallin to sign the bill. Gov. Mary
Oklahoma is the most recent state to try to eliminate the Common Core standards. Many Oklahomans deserve credit for the bill Gov. Mary Fallin (R) may sign this week. The truth, however, is there will be no end to the Gates
Gov. Mary Fallin (R) is poised to make the final decision on whether her state of Oklahoma will truly be the first state to fully repeal the Common Core standards without rebranding or renaming them. As Breitbart News reported Saturday,
South Carolina lawmakers have passed a bill that would review and replace the Common Core standards, but not immediately repeal them. H3893 passed the state Senate 42-0 and the House 80-26. It now heads to Gov. Nikki Haley (R), who
The Oklahoma legislature voted overwhelmingly Friday night to repeal the Common Core math and English standards for its state’s schools and to replace them with standards developed by the state. The bill now heads to Gov. Mary Fallin’s (R) desk
Boston Public Schools (BPS) has announced that it will be “improving and coordinating the use of instructional materials” by folding the subject area of History and Social Studies “under a Humanities umbrella,” along with English Language Arts (ELA) and World
This year’s college graduation exercises have seen an unusually high number of speakers who either were disinvited or withdrew after protests. The political issues differed from college to college. Brandeis disinvited defender of women’s rights Ayaan Hirsi Ali because she
DALLAS, Texas–Paris Independent School District Superintendent Paul Jones apparently had no idea that when he wrote an open online letter to parents slamming the Texas standardized STAAR test that it would go viral, end up on the local news and
A new study released by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute finds that new technology development that has been encouraged through the use of federal grants has served to threaten children’s privacy by allowing the collection of data on every child. Authors
As Common Core opponents increasingly gain ground, the initiative’s supporters are articulating more of the social engineering ideology that is at the heart of the nationalized standards. Kimberly Morin of Manchester Political Buzz Examiner reports that teacher David Pook, who
Today is a “time when college hasnever been more important,” according to the U.S. Department of Education(DOE) who announcedits latest $75 million competition–“First in the World (FITW).” It will create grants to “fund thedevelopment and testing of innovative approaches and
Arizona’s Superintendent of Public Instruction last week compared Common Core opponents to “barbarians at the gate,” and vowed to fight them to defend the nationalized standards whose main agenda, it appears, is to invest taxpayer dollars into yet another social
New York State Education Commissioner John King used the 60th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education to defend the Common Core standards and their stated purpose of ridding schools of inequality. King criticized Common Core opponents as supporting continued segregation
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush’s speech on Saturday to graduates of Grove City College in Pennsylvania may have been the first sign that he is developing an organization for a potential 2016 presidential run. His speech may have also given some
Having recently been endorsed by former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R), Karen Handel hopes to be the Republican candidate for U.S. Senator from Georgia after the state’s primary on Tuesday. In February, Jack Staver caught up with Handel to ask
What’s an Iowa mom calling “Satan’s Handiwork?” What’s making moms in California break down in tears? Or causing parents in Pennsylvania to feel their “blood boil?” Why, it’s nothing less than Common Core math. Norman Rockwell-type scenes of parents patiently
“Creating opportunities for unlimited learning will require newtools, new mindsets and new ways of thinking,” said Greg Abbott, the GOPgubernatorial candidate and current Texas Attorney General, who has beentraveling the state with the third phase of his Educating Texans: High-Quality
The Missouri legislature handily passed a bill Thursday that would define a process in which state education experts will evaluate and recommend K-12 education standards in the state. HB1490, which passed the Missouri state House, 131-12, and the state Senate,
Results of the 2013 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), often called “The Nation’s Report Card,” indicate that high school seniors’ academic skills remain stagnant and lacking in proficiency and that a wide achievement gap still exists among student ethnic
