Author Archive: Erin Tuttle

Progressive education fortified under Common Core

Erin Tuttle • January 19, 2014 • 1 Comment

Dr. Terrence Moore, author of The Story Killers, gives a compelling case against progressive education. It’s a great follow up to my post about John Dewey and the destructive effect of progressive education in American schools. Just because you believe in climate change and other ideas housed under the progressive name, doesn’t mean you believe […]

Is that you, Common Core?

Erin Tuttle • January 19, 2014 • 3 Comments

Governor Pence delivered a semantic blow to the Common Core in his State of the State address last week: “When it comes to setting standards for schools, I can assure you, Indiana’s will be uncommonly high. They will be written by Hoosiers, for Hoosiers and will be among the best in the nation.” Breitbart reported […]

Common Core Standards under the grip of Dewey’s dead hand

Erin Tuttle • January 19, 2014 • 2 Comments

My son is luckier than most children and attends a school that has yet to fall into the hands of the education establishment. In science class, we get to study a variety of interesting topics like the history of medicine instead of another boring lesson about global warming or environmentalism. The current lesson is about a physician […]

Common Core Standards held harmless for their havoc

Erin Tuttle • January 6, 2014 • 3 Comments

The widespread demonstrations offered by parents illustrating poorly designed homework and tests used by their child’s school are being dismissed by faithful supporters of the Common Core Standards (CCS). While they acknowledge there are problems with the curricula schools are using, they maintain the standards are not to blame. The problems stem from a lack […]