May 23, 2014
In a democratic country with a flourishing civil society, a high degree of pluralism, and ample room for disagreement and dissent — like the United States — it may well be harder to use the curriculum to change the political views of young people. But even in such...
May 22, 2014
FORT JENNINGS — Members of the Putnam County Common Core group addressed Fort Jennings School Board members and spoke out against Common Core standards during Wednesday night’s meeting. Lincoln Bramlage, Rose Stechschulte, Stephanie Stechschulte and Glenn Karhoff each...
May 22, 2014
Of more concern than the program’s “academic inferiority,” the report said, is the National Council for Teachers of Mathematics’ “repeated goal of promoting politically charged themes of social justice in schools nationwide.” “This approach often challenges children...
May 20, 2014
The opinions and wishes of parents don’t seem to matter to those who run the Bedford public schools, even though they are the ones paying the bills. Girard at Large has the story.
May 20, 2014
Our friend Kim Morin did a great job of outlining the outrage over the statements made by a school teacher at last night’s Common Core forum. In 2014, an author of the common core’s English/language arts standards, David Pook, a teacher at a New Hampshire...
May 20, 2014
Shocking is the word we’d use to describe the comments by Dr. David Pook at the end of last night’s debate on Common Core in New Hampshire. According to this archived report posted today by Examiner.com, a statement was made by Pook citing his “White...
