Author Archive: Heather Crossin
Common Core Scrooges give Dickens the Boot!
Hillsdale College Professor, Dr. Terrence Moore, has a fantastic new article entitled ” ‘Bah! Humbug!’: A Dickens-less Christmas from the Scrooges at the Common Core.” His article makes clear why it matters what stories children do or do not read in school: In a sane world, any flourishing people has sense enough to teach its […]
Let Freedom Ring: Exercise your Right to Free Speech!
Just up on you tube is a video entitled, “Commissioner King gets spanked,” which shows a portion of a Common Core forum in New York. After watching it, I think “spanked” is an understatement. Take a look to see just how real the growing outrage against Common Core is among parents all across the country. […]
Common Core crash in California
Yesterday, October 6th, Common Core had a crash in the state of California! At the Republican State Convention the following resolution passed overwhelmingly: Resolution ( F2013-2) to Oppose and Eliminate Common Core Education Policies in California (Co-authored by Bill Evers & Randall Jordan) Whereas the federally-promoted Common Core national curriculum-content standards in math and English (and […]
Spellbinding Words of Wisdom
If there is a silver lining in Common Core it is definitely that it has awakened the general public and engaged them in discussions about the quality of education in America. At Hoosiers Against Common Core, we have certainly never classified ourselves as proponents of the status quo. We certainly are not. We recognize that […]
Seiko Ito – A beloved and Master Teacher
Today, Hoosiers Against Common Core mourns the loss, and pays homage and tribute to one of Indiana’s finest educators, who passed away this morning. Seiko Ito (72) was born and raised in Japan, where she worked for a number of years as a nurse. Upon immigrating to the United States, she attended and obtained a […]
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