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…Common Core particularly. The latest I’m aware of, from Tennessee, finds that 58 percent of adults don’t know what Common Core is. That’s rather astonishing considering that Common Core will…

…higher-ups like Luna using Common Core advocacy as a springboard into very well-padded futures. Stephanie Zimmerman, a mother of eight who is Idaho’s grassroots Common Core watchdog, reports that “Common…

…embrace Common Core,” which Common Core bankrollers Bill and Melinda Gates say is Kentucky, not one child has run the Common Core gauntlet. They can’t have. It’s only at most…

…the Common Core grassroots have been largely burned by their representatives, who either have responded to serious arguments by relabeling Common Core or diverting blame for it. They’re politicians, man,…

…That’s coming up inside the Common Core politics and government standards. Common Core Means We’re Flying Blind on Student Progress Politically, Common Core is faring even worse. The trade publication…

…agenda in the ‘90s, we might well not have Common Core. The education structure she helped design and push is a direct precursor to Common Core, and Common Core actually…

…can count. But their kids can’t. 1. The Senseless, Infuriating Math Common Core math, how do we hate thee? We would count the ways, if Common Core hadn’t deformed even…

…Oklahoma’s Common Core Repeal From 2011 to 2014, the Common Core Four, as National Review dubbed us, fought Common Core and student data collection in the Oklahoma legislature. We logged…

…closer to Common Core. So to compare results, the researchers grouped those whose curriculum mandates were more similar to Common Core before it existed, then compared their results post-Common Core…

…Common Core. In fact, Common Core supporters used the same fail rates we still have almost a decade post-Common Core as a key argument to justify adopting, then keeping, Common…

…Core brand has become devalued by curriculum issues not associated with the Arizona standards.” In other words, Common Core critics aren’t really complaining about Common Core, but they aren’t savvy…

…‘Whether (DeVos) likes the Common Core or doesn’t like the Common Core — and I’ve heard both — it doesn’t matter,’ he said.” What a convenient narrative for him: Aw,…

…optional Common Core seminars in summer 2013. Teachers who volunteered for the Common Core planning committee, which the grant also sponsored, spent a week and a half that summer thinking…

…known as Common Core. Initially, Jindal supported the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), as did a majority of the nation’s governors, thinking it provided an opportunity to strengthen academic standards…

…Common Core, after a huge increase in media attention and political activity in the first half of 2014, which took four years after Common Core became law to show up….

…Common Core is pouring into K-12 classrooms. Adapted for younger children through Common Core, it seems to mean anchoring students’ observations about a text—the teachers never speak of a “book”…

…President Obama announced federal grants in return for states jumping into Common Core before it was even written. Common Core didn’t move fully into place until about 2015, though, so…

…to Common Core. The Chronicle-Telegram reported on her words to a local education forum, where Starr dissected specific portions of example Common-Core tests: Starr garnered a reputation of being a…

One of the fairy tales central-planning lovers spin about Common Core K-12 curriculum and testing mandates is that they will “reinvigorate[e] the democratic purpose of public education.” “The Common Core…

…Core. Common Core’s Owners Invited the Obama Administration to Shove It Down Everyone’s Throats The trade organizations that created Common Core in meetings closed to the public and conducted by…

…geometry. That means there is no measuring stick by which to equally compare pre-Common Core and post-Common Core tests. They simply stopped the non-Common Core tests one year and started…

…passing out flyers while wearing navy shirts that read, “Common sense, not Common Core.” Although Politico reported, “Nisly and Judy both put up a major fight against the Common Core…

…toughest jobs of any of our secretaries (emphasis added)… It seems Trump hasn’t forgotten Common Core. It’s likely efforts by the grassroots moms and dads who have fought Common Core…

…are mostly mothers. The media still usually labels Common Core opposition as Tea Party-driven, and that’s true to some extent, but the real drivers are mothers who saw Common Core…

…explicitly told the Obama administration they would use tax dollars to create Common Core curriculum. Common Core is not, as its apologists insist because there’s no other way to cover…

…standards adopted in 2015 are surprisingly Common Core-like. Unsurprisingly, like many Common Core states in the nation, national math scores for both Oklahoma fourth and eighth graders fell again for…

James O’Keefe’s latest undercover Common Core video is a doozy. The third in a series shows a former executive of the world’s largest education publishing company talking about how Common…

…like so many of our great American institutions, has rot at its core. Any business leader who treated his work as the business lobby has Common Core would quickly find…

…Perhaps not coincidentally, 2015 is the year states were required by the Obama administration to have fully phased in Common Core. Common Core is a set of national instruction and…

This morning, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal is set to announce he’s suing the federal government over Common Core. He’s already embroiled in three Louisiana lawsuits over Common Core, and recently…

…the federal government added to the Common Core bureaucracy by directly financing the two national tests aligned with the Common Core — the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College…

…by the well-heeled Common Core squad (Bill Gates has more money than God, and he’s paying everyone to back Common Core) to tack his name and reputation onto op-eds praising…

…nation. By and large, professors weren’t consulted before their colleges and universities signed onto the Common Core scheme. They are only now beginning to understand that Common Core will result…

…pre-Common Core curriculum mandates were of higher quality than the Common Core that replaced it. You read that right: Californians got their kids worse instruction, and are paying $9.2 billion…

…of using Common Core, student performance on state standardized tests has also gone down — that is, when the scoring isn’t changed to show better results. Before casting blame on…

…of Common Core opponents who are liberals. Take, for example, teachers union darling Diane Ravitch, who just had a big article in The New York Times about Common Core Saturday….