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Teachers, Learn from Experts at The Role of Literature in Common Core
An Invitation to Teachers: Indiana Memorial Union, Indiana University Saturday, April 5th The Association of Literary Scholars, Critics, and Writers presents The Role of Literature in the Common Core Concurrent Seminars (9:15) Reading Literature and Learning to Write: Successful Pedagogies at UC Riverside (Chair, John Briggs) Wonder and Literature (Chair: David Smith) Panel (10:45) The […]
Would you buy Obamacare under a different name?
Let’s say you were approached by a political strategist, gathering public reaction to a plan to save Obamacare. He asks, “If Obamacare was rebranded as a state-governed initiative with a different name, like IndianaCare, and put through a Hoosier process, do you think people would buy it?” You would probably laugh and say people would […]
Greg Garrison blasts Common Core
Greg Garrison was on fire during his Friday radio show on WIBC, blasting the Common Core as a federal intrusion. In his usual, colorful style he said the standards “stunk to high heavens of federal intervention, with the kookiest people in the world making the plans.” He took the time to read a piece by Terrence […]
Prof. Moore asks, “Are these people really in charge of our children’s education?”
Professor Terrence Moore, in an article posted by The Library of Law and Liberty, asks, “Are these people really in charge of our children’s education?” As a college professor and former head of a K-12 school, he says the “new” standards are a “cut and paste” job of the Common Core which fail to grasp […]
Side by side comparison of Indiana’s “new” K-12 math standards
Hoosiers Against Common Core has released the side by side comparison of the new Indiana math standards to the Indiana 2009 standards and the Common Core. (LINK PROVIDED AT BOTTOM OF POST) The comparison was performed by Ze’ev Wurman who served on the highly acclaimed California mathematics standards committee and is a former Us Department […]
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