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Pioneer Institute video on Common Core

February 13, 2014 0 Comments

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Indiana Common Core Review: A Stacked Deck?

February 12, 2014 28 Comments
Indiana Common Core Review: A Stacked Deck?

If you were going to the trial of someone accused of murdering a loved one, would it concern you if almost 50% of the jury had signed statements that they believed the accused was innocent?  Would you consider such a jury to be “fair” and “neutral?”  Would you believe that the “process” of our judicial […]

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Math teachers, please watch this video.

February 1, 2014 2 Comments

Do you think the Common Core math standards will fail? They did the last time. Watch this video by Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Stanford University,  James Milgram, who explains this is NOTHING NEW and the results will be no different.    

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Federally approved state sovereignty?

February 1, 2014 0 Comments
Federally approved state sovereignty?

Can one be alone together? Can one offer an unbiased opinion? Can one keep an open secret? Can a state have federally-approved, sovereign academic standards? An oxymoron is a figure of speech which contains words that seem contradictory to one another intended to create humor or  to make the reader stop and think.  In the case of Indiana and […]

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Common Core Reversal – Are We There Yet?

January 20, 2014 5 Comments
Common Core Reversal – Are We There Yet?

Last week’s flurry of Common Core articles give us some indication of where Indiana is headed.  Our response can best be summed up with the following: “We’ve come a long way, but we aren’t out of the woods yet!  The most crucial miles have yet to be travelled, before we cross the finish line.” To fully […]

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