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Indiana Common Core rebrand costing incumbents their seats

May 7, 2014 10 Comments
Indiana Common Core rebrand costing incumbents their seats

Indiana Governor Mike Pence’s Administration was on the losing side of two landslides through legislative endorsements in Tuesday’s Republican primary elections in northeastern Indiana.  These contests featured matchups between defenders of the Pence Administration’s re-branding of Common Core, and education reformers. In 2012, Hoosier republicans used the ballot box to voice their concern over the Common […]

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Parent arrested for talking out of turn at School Board meeting

May 7, 2014 3 Comments

A father was arrested for violating the two-minute speaking rule at a school board meeting in New Hampshire. He was there to raise his concerns over a book his daughter was assigned to read for her 9th grade English class. The book is called 19 Minutes and it contains scenes that are so sexually explicit […]

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George Will nails Common Core on Fox News

May 6, 2014 3 Comments

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American Educational Research Association report: Common Core NOT based on Indiana’s former standards

May 1, 2014 3 Comments

The new Indiana standards closely, if not identically, resemble the Common Core standards they are intended to replace. The Indiana Department of Education(IDOE) and the Center for Education and Career Innovation(CECI) have responded to this complaint by claiming the Common Core was based on Indiana’s former standards, thus when using these sets of standards to […]

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American Educational Research Association report: Common Core NOT based on Indiana’s former standards

May 1, 2014 0 Comments

The new Indiana standards closely, if not identically, resemble the Common Core standards they are intended to replace. The Indiana Department of Education(IDOE) and the Center for Education and Career Innovation(CECI) have responded to this complaint by claiming the Common Core was based on Indiana’s former standards, thus when using these sets of standards to […]

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