Governor Snyder signed the School Omnibus Budget Bill on Tuesday. Included in the budget was a provision that appears to have blocked the implementation of Smarter Balanced for one year by extending the MEAP. This is obviously a good thing in many ways. Thanks to your calls and the the hard work of lawmakers against […]
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Karen Braun is a writer and conference speaker on issues related education and family life. Her work has appeared in the American Thinker, Crosswalk, The Old Schoolhouse Magazine, WatchDog Wire, and various other websites and magazines. She has also appeared on TV and radio venues. Along with blogging, Karen also enjoys homeschooling, running marathons, and spending time with her husband, their six children, and two grand children. For more information please contact Karen at spunkyhomeschool at gmail dot com
Fox News reports that Common Core is becoming the new litmus test inside the Republican Party. Common Core has emerged as the newest Republican litmus test for gauging candidates’ conservative bona fides, and experts say the controversial national education standard will help shape elections from school boards to the White House for the foreseeable future. […]
Governor Snyder said in his 2011 State of the State Addresss, “We’ve been spending money without delivering the results to give our young people a bright future. It is time that we view our educational system which runs from pre-natal to lifelong learning. It’s time to start talking about P-20 instead of just K-12. We […]
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The “College Core” is coming
The Education Trust issued a press release about their new report Tough Love: Bottom-Line Quality Standards for Colleges. Quoting the press release the report, “lays out a comprehensive plan for the federal government to leverage existing resources, in the form of student aid and tax benefits, to protect students and taxpayer dollars from going to […]
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Common Core Endorsements Matter
Endorsements matter. They are significant both financially and politically. In this post I highlight two lobby groups, Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) and Students First and discuss the impact they have on educational freedom and Michigan elections. Pro-Common Core is against educational freedom. An anti-Common Core candidate getting the GLEP or Students First endorsement is […]
In a recent email and webinar, Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) asserted that “At this time, we have not seen any evidence that the redesigned SAT will harm homeschoolers in any way.” Is that a valid statement? Simply by looking at the documentation provided on the Common Core website written by HSLDA, the answer is […]
We’ve been getting a lot of questions about the Great Lakes Education Project (GLEP) since we began our 2014: Election Roll Call which notes the candidates position on Common Core and whether they have been endorsed by GLEP. In that post we wrote, We will also be including the names of candidates and incumbents who […]
Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) hosted a webinar with College Board President, David Coleman, last Friday. If you were hoping for a take-down of Coleman it didn’t happen. The email sent out by HSLDA President Mike Smith before the event gave us a hint at the tone, At this time, we have not seen any […]
I received a note from a parent after she had a conversation with her local charter school principal over Common Core and how it is impacted her child. She wrote, I had the opportunity to discuss my Common Core concerns with the principal, alone, after the meeting. I had a full page of reasons […]
A Guest Post by Melanie Kurdys The resignation letter of Eagle Crest Charter Academy President Biran Polet because of Common Core and SBAC has sparked a lot of interest in the role Common Core and high-stakes testing is playing in school choice. There are people who are strong advocates of both school choice and Common […]