Tag: Common Core ELA Standards

Glenn Beck Shines Spotlight on Common Core

March 18, 2013 5 Comments
Glenn Beck Shines Spotlight on Common Core

Glenn Beck featured the Common Core State Standards last week on his show on TheBlaze TV.

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Veteran Teacher Gives Common Core a Thumbs Down

February 4, 2013 0 Comments
Veteran Teacher Gives Common Core a Thumbs Down

Last week syndicated columnist, Andrea Neal, an adjunct fellow with the Indiana Policy Review Foundation, wrote an excellent Common Core article, “Why would we lower our standards?,” which was featured in newspapers around the state.  Neal’s article starts out with a hard-hitting bang: Plenty of good reasons exist for Indiana to drop out of the Common […]

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Michelle Malkin Strikes Again

January 28, 2013 0 Comments

Read Michelle Malkin’s 2nd Common Core article, “Rotten to the Core (Part 2): Readin’, Writin’ and Deconstructionism,” which came out January 25, 2013.  In it Malkin helps reveal the philosophy behind the Common Core English Language Arts Standards, by explaining it this way: One story or “text” is no better than another.  Common Core’s literature-lite […]

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Literature or Technical Manuals: Who Should Be Teaching What, Where, and Why?

January 27, 2013 1 Comment

Sandra Stotsky, Professor Emerita of Education Reform, University of Arkansas Paper presented at the Educational Policy Conference, St. Louis, Missouri, January 25, 2013 I.  Purpose Over 45 states adopted Common Core’s ELA standards in 2010, in some cases before they were even written. Only in 2012 did some discussion about their implications take place in […]

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Indiana ELA Standards “Clearly Superior”

January 20, 2013 1 Comment

Read Heather Crossin’s January 16th, Indianapolis Star letter to the editor, entitled Corporate interests behind Common Core. She sets the record straight about the finding of the Fordham Institute report, “The State of State Standards – and the Common Core in 2010,” which categorized Indiana’s English Language Arts Standards as “clearly superior” to those of […]

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