Apr 3, 2014
We learned from a upset mother in Bedford that her third-grade son was disturbed to have to fill out a survey with some pretty extreme questions, including whether he used protection during sex, if he knew his gender orientation and had he ever sniffed glue. Hear Rich...
Apr 3, 2014
Sixth Graders’ Common Core Homework: Remove Two Rights from Bill of Rights An Arkansas mom was disturbed to learn her sixth grade daughter’s homework was to “prioritize, revise, prune two and add two” amendments in the Bill of Rights. The...
Apr 2, 2014
U.S. Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA) needs our help. He is leading the charge in the U.S. Senate to defund the Common Core State Standards. He is looking for co-signers for a letter that will be sent to the leaders of the Senate Labor, Health and Human Services, and...
Apr 2, 2014
First take a look at this website. Scroll down to “Is Common Core Related to Student Data Mining” and read down to Jane Robbins “15 minute crash course on Common Core’s connection with student data mining” and watch that video. Keep in...
Apr 2, 2014
NASHUA – The Board of Education voted Monday to look into the potential blow back of delaying the new Smarter Balanced Assessment for two years, asking city attorneys to weigh in about the possible ramifications for the school district. Several Nashua school board...
Apr 2, 2014
The foundational document that Common Core promoters cite is Benchmarking for Success: “By the eighth grade, students in top performing nations are studying algebra and geometry, while in the U.S., most eighth-grade math courses focus on...
Apr 2, 2014
The Norfolk School Committee approved and sent a letter responding to the Department’s legal opinion banning parental opt out that supports parents’ right to opt their children out of PARCC pilot testing. The Wachusett School Committee has adopted a policy that allows...
Apr 2, 2014
MARION, N.Y. – The controversy surrounding the new Common Core-aligned standardized tests is causing some New York school leaders to act as childish and immature as the students they are supposed to be leading. bored student13WHAM.com reports at least 16 school...
Apr 2, 2014
We were hoping this was an April Fools joke. It is not. We have seen how the regionalists and urbanists have been pushing to remove local control from planning. Now we have education bureaucrats admitting they want to remove local school boards. Virginia Barry is...
Mar 31, 2014
by D. Niwa Many of the problems in education — connected to instructional standards, assessments, methods, etc.(and including “Common Core” initiatives) — can be tracked back to the information you will learn about in these two videos:...
