- Understanding Common Core - Why Common Core Standards is Bad for Our Children and Our Country
- If you are new to our site, we encourage you to listen to this short 25 minute call with author of Children of the Core, Kris Nielsen. It will fully explain what the Common Core is and the dangers it imposes to our education system. Dial (712) 432-1202 Access Code: 930629# Reference number: "#. Fast forward the first 4 minutes by pressing number 2
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- A Good Synopsis of Devious Federal Genesis of CCSS
- Great Information on Opting out of Invasion of Privacy
- Reclaiming the Conversation on Education
- Common Core ELA Informational Texts
- Common Core Standards - Fact and Fiction
- Preserve Innocence: Stop the Federal Takeover of Education
- Project Constitution - Common Core: WARNING - Content will disturb parents
- Michelle Malkin - 3 Florida Schools Tracking Children - Megyn Kelly
- Something Fun: Dialog with A Common Core Proponent
- The Common Core Cancer Trailer - Coming September 2013
- VLOG #3: I'm No Expert - A Student's Perspective and Advice on CCSS
- WARNING! This may disturb you. Indoctrination in Common Core ELA Texts
- Teacher Resignation Video: Ellie Rubenstein Explains 'Everything I Love About Teaching Is Extinct'
- PARENTS! This is about your kid's mental health and Common Core. WATCH THIS!
- PARENTS TAKE NOTE! New York Parents Coach Kids to Refuse Common Core Tests
- Common Core Validation Committee Member Discusses Common Core
- Americans for Prosperity (AFP) California: Discussion on Common Core
- Common Core abandons classics for 'reading executive orders from President Obama'
- CCSS: Don't like it? Who are you going to call?
- Data Mining In Common Core
- The Fight Against Common Core. What is it? Is it Good or Is it Propaganda?
- Factual Origins and Details of Common Core
- KS Education Board Member Discusses Common Core Takeover
- Teachers & Moms Against Common Core
- Citizens for Quality Education Address PUSD Board on Common Core State Standards
- Harming Education (Common Core Abuses Children)
- Common Core Standards: How States Are Roped In (VIDEO)
- Part 1 of 5 Stop the Common Core
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A sensible guide for parents written by a teacher who was initially for Common Core and learned the truth. Learn the importance of opting your child out of SBAC testing.
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
The issuance to students of IDs that connect them to their test scores is critical to the overall success of the federal government's Common Core educational program, according to a study. Among the " ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
Do you want your child to be Bill Gates' "guinea pig" for 10 years to determine if Common Core works or not' Please watch the video in this article and listen to what one of the primary forces behind C ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
Don't say you weren't warned. In March of this year, the Harvard Graduate School of Education hosted an event titled "Common Core: Perils, Pitfalls, and Opportunities." It was moderated by Harvard p ... read more
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
One of the sticky issues regarding the Common Core remains the secretive way the standards were first written, and the almost total absence of classroom educators from that process -- which I first pointed o ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
It took a teacher 56 seconds to explain how to add 9 plus 6. “When you and I were in school, we used to just memorize 9 plus 6 equals 15. Not anymore. With the Common Core, students need to understand w ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
A study published by the pro-Common Core Carnegie Corporation in 2013 generated a key finding that has not received much attention, but perhaps should be quoted often at education hearings in state legislatures a ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
This study, touting "new" designs for education, actually reveals some little heard problems with Common Core.
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
How did I miss it? The single most important study on Common Core implementation was published by the Carnegie Corporation in 2013, but its key finding has been ignored.
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
There are genuine problems with Common Core all the same, and these are potentially at a deeper level. Take as one example, the Common Core kindergarten mathematics standard, which requires that children u ... read more
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
Last Saturday Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal told Caffeinated Thoughts that he believed he had the authority and power to get out of Common Core and that he was going to use that power. This afternoon d ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
Under a new program implemented by education czar Arne Duncan, employees from the federal department of education will be placed in schools throughout the nation to oversee their operations and ensure t ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
A new study released by the Boston-based Pioneer Institute finds that new technology development that has been encouraged through the use of federal grants has served to threaten children’s privacy by a ... read more
( Education | Grassroots Voter Actions | Common Core State Standards )
Parents across California are learning more about the Common Core standards, as grass roots groups opposed to the centralized standards from across the state have joined together for a whirlwind tour f ... read more
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
Common Core is on the ropes. More and more states are pulling back from the national standards as the 2014–15 school year implementation deadline looms near. In Louisiana, Governor Bobby Jindal (R)—formerly a ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
The question posed re: whether education is about "my child" or about the "the system", is the wrong question. The question should be, "Should schools exist to educate or to train'" There's a fundamental d ... read more
( Education | Agenda 21 | Common Core State Standards )
As the Obama administration, Bill Gates, the United Nations, and other forces seek to finalize the decades-old effort to nationalize - and even globalize - education by bribing and bludgeoning state governments t ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
Between March 25 and June 6, more than 4 million kids will sit for the trial run of national Common Core tests. Faced with a rise in parents who don’t want their kids taking these tests, state officials a ... read more
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
Despite the new law supposedly aimed at stopping Common Core in Indiana, though, suspicion and outrage is still building as Hoosiers learn about the supposedly “new and improved” standards. According t ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
We know from our friends at Knewton what the Grand Design is-- a system in which student progress is mapped down to the atomic level. Atomic level (a term that Knewton lervs deeply) means test by test, a ... read more
( Education | Govt Spending | Common Core State Standards )
WASHINGTON, D.C. – For far too long a big part of the Common Core debate has been about establishing simple fact: the federal government provided serious coercion to get states to adopt the Core, and t ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
Tina Jung, information officer for the California Department of Education, said the adoption of the Common Core is not mandatory. She said it is up to the local school districts, not the state, to decide i ... read more
( Regulatory Burdens | Education | Common Core State Standards )
Dr. Gary Johnson is the Director of Special Education Advocacy and Instruction, at the Early Life Child Psychology and Education Center in Utah. His testimony before the Wisconsin State Legislature is s ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Behind the scenes of standardized testing. After three years working as a scorer, Dan DiMaggio says he's a skimming machine. "It's ugly," he says. "You just go as fast as possible."
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Many parents object that Common Core will operate through computers that will collect private and personal information about students and their families. Teachers complain they are being forced to teach a ... read more
( Education | Govt Spending | Common Core State Standards )
With uncommon speed, school districts and charter schools this fall will receive substantial money they didn't foresee coming their way a few months ago to prepare for the Common Core standards. The catch: T ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
The NSA isn’t the only one collecting data. A private national database, funded mostly by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, could collect wide-ranging records on millions of public school students. S ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
While the common core may not be an issue for you, or your school, do know that for others it will be a major issue. And the problem is this, while the standards might work for you and your school, there a ... read more
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
The Michigan Legislature is poised to pass a budget that prohibits the state education department from spending funds to implement the Common Core State Standards.
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
The move toward standards that teach students to be analytical encounters a bipartisan backlash. The passage for the seventh-grade lesson was blatantly offensive - an excerpt from a 1938 anti-Semitic c ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
California signed on to new curriculum standards under pressure. But will they help' California failed to win a Race to the Top grant, but nonetheless committed itself to a new set of curriculum standards t ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
The president’s proposal, called Preschool For All, would make another $20.9 million available to California for home-visiting programs. The programs send nurses, social workers or other professionals t ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Educators from the US and beyond: please share your teaching stories with Mr. Bill Gates. How have their policies influenced your classroom, your students, your teaching, your schools, and your communities?
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Forget that curriculum experts hardly all agree with this assertion. Then, it says that the standards were "developed by states" when, in fact, they were not: the National Governors Association and Council o ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Indeed, the first wave of exams was so overwhelming for these young New Yorkers that some parents refused to let their children take the test.
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
Privacy concerns are growing among parents, educators and some state officials about a Gates Foundation-funded project that is storing an unprecedented amount of personal information about millions of s ... read more
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
The Texas House of Representatives voted 140-2 to pass language prohibiting Texas from participating in the Common Core State Standards. Only two votes against it. Incredible. The bill, HB 462, was s ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
But behind the high-profile back and forth over specific policies and prescriptions lies a story that has less to do with ideas than with money, less to do with facts than with an ideological subtext t ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Common Core State Standards are nothing without the tests/assessments. The proponents speak to how great the standards are but usually know little or nothing about the tests that are "being developed". ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Joy Pullmann at School Reform News wrote an excellent piece that helps to further demonstrate that the Common Core State Standards were not state-led. While there were many people who served on various c ... read more
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
A Michigan state senator, Republican Tom McMillan, joined lawmakers across the country trying to stop the new academic standards when he successfully added language to the state budget last week that d ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
Little known to the public are changes in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in 2011 by the Education Department. The changes allow for the release of student records for non-academic purposes. P ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Crayola joins the list of big name education companies who have sold out our children and America to the United Nations' global agenda.
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
inBloom, the non-profit started with a hundred million dollar investment from the Gates Foundation, is planning to create a digital record which, barring catastrophe, truly could be a permanent record o ... read more
( Education | Grassroots Voter Actions | Common Core State Standards )
The problem they have is that the substance of the Tea Party criticism of Common Core standards is solid. And it aligns pretty well with what many of us a bit more to the left have been saying for years. L ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Instead of dealing with the real problem, the Common Core offers us, in the words of Common Core opponent Susan Ohanian, "a radical untried curriculum overhaul and ... nonstop national testing."
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
CSCOPE, a controversial school curriculum management system in Texas that once included a description of the Boston Tea Party as an act of terror and has called Islamic terrorists freedom fighters, is w ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
Sadly, but not surprisingly, instead of improving education by repealing No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates, the Obama administration is increasing national control over schools via the " ... read more
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
We must fix the failures of No Child Left Behind. We must provide the funding we were promised, give our states the resources they need and finally meet our commitment to special education. We also need t ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
The backlash is richly deserved. The Common Core standards are academically inferior to the standards they replaced in high performing states; and they ignore empirical lessons of how states like Massachusetts a ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
All but four states have adopted the complete Common Core Standards. Those four states- Texas, Virginia, Alaska, and Nebraska - have been slow to warm to the uniform, but divisive, national standards f ... read more
( Education | "Nanny State" | Common Core State Standards )
Students, parents, and teachers who are anxious or merely curious about the coming online assessments matched to the Common Core State Standards will now have the opportunity to go through a test run o ... read more
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Common Core recycles a decades-old, top-down approach to education. Its roots are in a letter sent to Hillary Clinton by Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, after B ... read more
( Education | Politicians' Actions | Common Core State Standards )
LANSING -- Hours after a conference committee approved a measure prohibiting the Michigan Department of Education from spending funds on implementing national Common Core State Standards for mathematics a ... read more
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The board's concerns revolved around the pending Common Core State Standards, which are national standards for math and language arts adopted by Oregon and 47 other states. During the public comment t ... read more
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The nation's eyes are on Indiana as it reconsiders the Common Core academic standards that are supposed to raise student achievement and standardize what children learn across the country. The operative w ... read more
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Between the two sides of the Common Core debate, proponents of Common Core have consistently failed the first test of any new government program -- follow the money.
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
But as the common core shifts from theory to reality, critics are emerging. State lawmakers are concerned about the cost, which the Fordham Institute estimated could run as high as $12 billion nationally. P ... read more
( Education | Grassroots Voter Actions | Common Core State Standards )
Tea party groups over the past few weeks have suddenly and successfully pressured Republican governors to reassess their support for a rare bipartisan initiative backed by President Obama to overhaul t ... read more
( Education | Common Core State Standards )
(Reuters) - A $100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away f ... read more
- Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts, Adopted August 2010
WARNING: © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved. - Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, Adopted August 2010
WARNING: © Copyright 2010. National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and Council of Chief State School Officers. All rights reserved. - Heartland Institute Policy Brief - Common Core: A Poor Choice for States
- Sustainability Education Summit - Proceedings Report
- UN and Microsoft Agreement - Global Education: Peeling the Common Core Onion
- Common Core State Standards Systems Implementation Plan for California
- Putting a Price Tag on Common Core State Standards
- How Common Core's ELA Standards Place College Readiness at Risk
- Graphic of Common Core Players
- USDoE Promoting grit, tenacity and perseverance (guide to removal of your child's privacy)
- Invited Testimony on the Low Quality of the Common Core Standards
- CA Pending Bill AB 484 - Effectively Eliminates Local Control of Your Child's Education
- Congressional Letter on Privacy Concerns and coercive nature of Common Core
- Understanding Common Core - Why Common Core Standards is Bad for Our Children and Our Country
- Mobile App - About Common Core
- Reclaiming the Conversation on Education
- Responses to the ELA Exam
- FightCommonCore.com
- Alliance for Childhood
- Preserve Innocence: From the American Principles Project
- Keep Education Local
- Truth in American Education
- Analysis of State's 'Progress' on Privacy Invasion
- Stop Common Core Illinois
- Hoosiers Against Common Core
- Blog: Blogush - Posts on CCSS from a Teacher
- Common Education Data Standards (Collected and distributed without your permission)
- Blog: Truth About Education
- FreedomWorks
- The Truth about the International Baccalaureate Programme
- Education Liberty Watch
- Missouri Coalition Against Common Core
- parentalrights.org - Protecting Children by Empowering Parents
- Home School Legal Defense Association
- Floridians Against Common Core Education
- American Principles Project
- PARENTS AND EDUCATORS AGAINST COMMON CORE STANDARDS
- Pioneer Institute
- Stop Common Core in New York State
- Children of the Core - It's Time to Stand Up for our Kids
- Sandra Stotsky, Ed.D. - In Depth Analysis of CCSS
- Utahns Against Common Core
- COMMON CORE - Education Without Representation
- Stop Common Core - Reclaiming Local Control of Education
- EngageNY.org
- Common Core - State Standards Initiative
- InBloom.org - Main Site
- InBloom.org - Developer Documentation of Data Model
- The Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC)
- The Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium
- National Education Data Model by National Center for Education Statistics (printed to PDF)
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