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...
