(Update: HR 226 is now known as HCR 11 but the same issues remain. More details here.) UPDATE: The House Education Committee meeting has been cancelled. Will update as more information becomes available. KEEP CALLING! Representative Tim Kelly introduced HR 226, a resolution to go forward with the Common Core but with some conditions attached. […]
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Kyle Olsen (EAGNews.org) does an excellent job helping former Governor Mike Huckabee, a proponent of Common Core, realize that what he thought common core was back when he was part of National Governors Association is NOT what it is today. It was interesting to watch Huckabee try to make the case that Common Core “data” […]
Dr. Megan Koschnick discusses the inappropriateness of the Common Core Standards for K-3 at the Common Core Conference held at Notre Dame on September 9, 2013. The video is about a half-hour long and is worth every minute of your time. Our nation’s youngest children do not deserve the stress that these standards will create […]
Sandra Stotsky has written a white paper, “Common Core’s Invalid Validation Committee” discussing her experience with the Common Core validation committee. She will present the paper at the “The Changing Role of Education in America: Consequences of the Common Core.” conference at Notre Dame on September 9. Common Core: Education Without Representation highlighted a few […]
Governor Snyder said in 2011, ” 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 need to establish a system that focuses on real achievement for all of our children.” The P-20 education system has been […]
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A “Nation Confused” on Common Core
Via Heritage Foundation, A bundle of federal incentives encouraged 45 states to adopt Common Core national standards and tests. But a new poll shows that most Americans have no idea what the Common Core is—even though it will have major ramifications for their children and their tax dollars. Phi Delta Kappa and Gallup have just […]
Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, called the new Common Core tests an ” absolute game-changer in public education.” The Washington Post looks beyond the rhetoric and finds that there is not much substance to the claim he makes. 1. Myth: Common Core tests will be much better than current exams, with many items measuring higher-order […]
In 2010, then gubernatorial candidate Rick Snyder was embroiled in a kerfuffle over whether or not he outsourced jobs while at Gateway. In 2013, a bigger outsourcing problem is brewing– Governor Snyder is outsourcing education. Governor Snyder is convinced that in order to plug the “brain drain” and stay competitive we must outsource education to […]
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The “Gates-led” Common Core
In 2006, Bill Gates said to a group of elites at the Aspen Institute, The business of philanthropy is thinking through the way to change something.It’s just this simple: You have some money, and you have some things you’d like to see different.” And that is exactly what Gates did with the Common Core. Thankfully, […]
The Wall Street Journal is talking about the Common Core and what will greet students in the coming school year. (Link here subscription required.) This comment by Rick Hess of American Enterprise Institute was telling, “This is the huge fulcrum moment for many of the reforms,” said Rick Hess, director of education policy studies […]