Tag: Common Core

An article in Politico on Friday set forth the premise that some states are defiantly dropping required courses for high school graduation because of a “standards rebellion,” which the Obama administration is viewing as “the dumbing down of America.” Stephanie

As a public school educator in Louisiana who is opposed to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), I participated in a panel discussion on February 4th for the West St. Tammany Chamber of Commerce. The panel was composed of two

In an op-ed in USA Today Wednesday, Bill Gates writes that the Common Core State Standards are to be “commended” because they will “improve education for millions of students” and that arguments against the standards are “shrouded in myths.” After

The representative of an Iowa homeschool organization says that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) will be addressing her group in March because “what he stands for is what we’re about – education freedom.” As reported by Breitbart News’ Tony Lee, Cruz,

Forty-two U.S. House members have signed onto a resolution condemning the Common Core State Standards as destructive to American education, Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC) announced in a press release on Wednesday. The resolution, H. Res. 476, denounces the use of

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) blasted the New York State Board of Regents’ proposal to delay the impact of the Common Core assessments on teachers and students until 2022 as yet another attempt to delay the state’s new teacher evaluation system.

In 2012, terrorist and activist Chicago professor Bill Ayers told his followers that the left had “absolute access to the community, the school… the classroom,” and that is where it should do its “movement-building.” In October of 2009, when speculation

The National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC) has endorsed the Obama administration’s Common Core State Standards and is planning to launch a nation-wide campaign to salvage the increasingly unpopular initiative. Considered to be the leading voice for 16 million Hispanic

In Common Core and other federal education matters, no name stirs up more controversy than inBloom, the 2013 nonprofit rebrandedfrom predecessor Smart Learning Collaboration (SLC).  Originally launched with nine states on board, inBloom has been accused of everything from collecting to tracking

Some of the nation’s top Common Core experts are weighing in on former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s recommendation to the creators of the initiative to “rebrand it, refocus it, but don’t retreat.” As Breitbart News reported on February 1st, Huckabee

Mississippi Republican Sen. Thad Chochran is in trouble, and the GOP establishment is pulling out all the stops to save him. A pro-Cochran super PAC associated with former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour is already on the airwaves to define upstart

Channeling Hillary Clinton’s philosophy of “It takes a village to raise a child,” a panelist at a Center for American Progress (CAP) forum on the Common Core standards said their critics were a “tiny minority” whose lack of support for

Outraged parents. Fleeing teachers. Anxiety-ridden and medicated students. Fuzzy math. Crazy historyassignments posted on Facebook. Longitudinal databases. Silencedcommunity members at school board meetings in YouTube footage.Newfangled public school pathways of college and career readiness underthe banner of “STEM” (science, technology, engineering and math)

Senator Pat Roberts (R-KS), a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, introduced the Learning Opportunities Created At the Local (LOCAL) Level Act, which would stop the federal government from forcing education standards on the states with

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

Rhode Island State Representative Gregg Amore (D-Dist.65, East Providence) submitted 2014-H 7095, a bill which would create a group of 21 members, including two parents of students enrolled in Rhode Island public schools, to examine Common Core standards and delay

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

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

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,

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

The headlines coming out of New York’s education milieu over the weekend were variations of “NY teachers’ union withdraws support for Common Core.”  As the Washington Post reports: The Board of Directors of the New York State United Teachers, a

From state academic standards and tests to charter and virtual schools, the K-12 education world has changed in the 30 years since President Ronald Reagan’s landmark “A Nation at Risk” commission diagnosed the myriad problems with public schooling in America.

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