Apr 24, 2014
A battle is brewing in Baton Rouge over the state’s implementation of Common Core in schools. Right now the governor and the head of education for the state are at odds after the governor “flip flops” on Common Core. Last month Governor Bobby Jindal...
Apr 24, 2014
And yet they claim CC doesn’t provide lesson plans or tell teachers how to teach. This is complete nonsense. There is total control over methods and philosophy and no academic freedom for teachers. It’s their way or the highway, or you’re out....
Apr 24, 2014
RALEIGH (WTVD) — A legislative committee voted Thursday to recommend to the full North Carolina General Assembly that it do away with Common Core standards for math and English in public schools. The Common Core State Standards Initiative was put together...
Apr 24, 2014
Plattsburgh, NY: 47% students not taking the Common Core exams. They can sit and read. PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – With the arrival of spring comes the arrival of end-of-year exams in schools. But this year something unusual is taking place. Some students are refusing...
Apr 24, 2014
Editor’s note: Nicholas Tampio is assistant professor of political science at Fordham University. He is the author of “Kantian Courage: Advancing the Enlightenment in Contemporary Political Theory.” The opinions expressed in this commentary are...
Apr 24, 2014
The wagon to get out of Common Core town has started rolling. Stokes County, NC is on board. Stokes County Board of Education has issued a resolution rejecting the Common Core. In the resolution, they cite “substantial disagreement” amongst educators as to...
Apr 24, 2014
I guess one would be led to believe that having the U.S. Department of Education REVOKE the state’s No Child Left Behind Waiver was a bad thing. We would ask you to consider a few things first. If every state rejected Common Core and all of the strings attached...
Apr 23, 2014
The Manchester School District recently released the “draft” standards for Math and English. We asked Ze’ev Wurman to take a look and offer some feedback. Here are his initial thoughts afterquickly looking over the draft standards in Mathematics....
Apr 23, 2014
Rich Girard from Girard at Large calls for the resignation of the Superintendent based on his actions and disregard for the law and parental Right to Know Requests. Listen…
Apr 22, 2014
NH videographer Ed Comeau was featured in this Breitbart article. Writing at National Review Online, American Enterprise Institute’s Rick Hess and Mike McShane make the complaint that critics of Common Core have not come up with the next steps to “repeal and replace”...
