Stop The Common Core
Jane Robbins of American Principles Project offers a five-part video series that explains why we must stop the Common Core.
Governor Pence, Stop the Common Core
A weeks or two ago, Phyllis Schlafly wrote a great article entitled, “Common Core Opponent is Upset Victor.” In the article she depicts Glenda Ritz’s stunning defeat of Tony Bennett, and the role that grassroots opposition to Common Core played in that race. Schlafly ends her column with the following piece of sound advice: Wake […]
Kindergarten Common Core stop the madness
If a 90 minute uninterrupted reading block wasn’t bad enough for a 5 or 6 year old child, try the new Common Core standards. They are developmentally inappropriate and will create a classroom of suffering children and teachers, if teachers stick around. A Washington Post article, by Valerie Strauss critiques the standards and explains why […]
Michelle Malkin Strikes Again
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 […]
Literature or Technical Manuals: Who Should Be Teaching What, Where, and Why?
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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