Categories
Uncategorized

CWA Conference Call Wednesday Night

Second Chance to Join CWA’s “Stop Common Core Conference Call” We heard you loud and clear! The tremendous participation during Concerned Women for America’s (CWA) nation-wide “Facts About Common Core Conference Call” and overwhelming requests for another opportunity to join in is why we are hosting a second “Facts about Common Core Conference Call” on […]

Categories
Events

Dates for Common Core Hearings in Lansing

Hearings for Common Core will be held in Lansing,  The dates are as follows, The first meeting with be on Tuesday, July 16th from 9-11 a.m. in room 521 HOB. This meeting will bring in testimony on the history and timeline of common core and then the MDE will testify on how it is being […]

Categories
Common Core Problems Student Data & Privacy

Duncan’s Denial

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan gave a speech at the American Society of News Editors Annual Convention Secretary Duncan said, “The Common Core has become a rallying cry for fringe groups that claim it is a scheme for the federal government to usurp state and local control of what students learn. An op-ed in the […]

Categories
Uncategorized

Keeping Up With the Common Core

Along with this website, there are several excellent websites to help you learn more about Common Core, national education standards, and assessments.   Stop Common Core in Michigan does not endorse nor agree with all the views expressed on these websites but we offer them as possible resources to gain helpful information about the Common Core […]

Categories
Next Generation Science Standards

Next Generation Science Standards

While much attention is paid to the Common Core State Standards in Math and English  adopted in 2010 by 46 states,  don’t be fooled into thinking that national “common standards” will end with math and English.   Education reform proponents cleverly focused initially on the “least controversial” subjects and then turned their attention to develop other […]

Categories
Events Uncategorized

Upcoming Events to Learn More about Common Core

Stop Common Core in Michigan will be speaking at various events around the state.  We will continually be updating this post with new dates and events around the state where you can learn more about Common Core.  So check back often. On Thursday July 18 we will have a speaker in Sandusky MI, at the […]

Categories
Uncategorized

Common Core and Private/Homeschooling

The Heritage Institute blog, The Foundry, writes, New information on Common Core “alignment” by the ACT, SAT, and even GED exams raises questions about the impact Common Core will have on private and homeschooled students and their ability to “opt out” of the federally incentivized standards if they want to apply for college. …Proponents of […]

Categories
Uncategorized

House Sub-Committee on Common Core

Members of the House Sub-Committee on Common Core Standards were announced.  The House Education Subcommittee on Common Core Standards will be chaired by Saginaw Township Republican Tim Kelly. Legislators on the panel include vice-chair Rep. Amanda Price (R-Park Township); Rep. Tom McMillin (R-Rochester Hills); Rep. Dave Pagel (R-Oronoko Township); Rep. Margaret O’Brien (R-Portage); Rep. Bill […]

Categories
Uncategorized

The Federal Game of “Duncan May I?”

In the June 15, 2013  GOP weekly radio address Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.), a former U.S. education secretary who now serves as the Senate education committee’s ranking member sad, “..we have a major disagreement about who should be in charge of our one hundred thousand public schools that educate fifty million American children.   To […]

Categories
Uncategorized

HIllsdale Lecture on Common Core

Common Core Education without Representation posted an excellent video today. HIllsdale College Professor Daniel B. Coupland speaks about the servile quality of Common Core’s skills-based focus: “As long as students are told that the end of education is a job or a career, they will forever be servants of some master.” He profoundly says: “If […]