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…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….

…Common Core Rebrand A passel of Common Core opponents showed up to Pence’s AFP speech with signs, complaining because he stood by as our supposed Common Core rewrite cemented Common…

…the Machine has Common Core right: It’s the biggest reform you know nothing about. The movie’s ominous background music is a tip-off to its generally negative take on the national…

…all. It’s only a set of guidelines, lesson plans, curriculum design frameworks, and stuff like that — just like Common Core. Um, I mean… This is just like Common Core…

…sharp divisions between them and progressive education, the kind that has ruled U.S. schools since the 1900s and manifests itself today most prominently in Common Core. Common Core aims entirely…

…implementing Common Core, a set of centrally mandated curriculum rules and tests for what children are to learn in each K-12 grade, with the results linked to school and teacher…

…from the video: Hillary Clinton: You know, what I think about the really unfortunate argument that has been going on around Common Core, it’s very painful because the Common Core…

Fortune has put together a Common Core article package that headlines its New Year’s Day issue. They clearly spent a lot of time on it. Too bad, then, that after…

A frustrated dad recently posted a photo of a check he wrote out to his son’s school using Common Core-like math. Though Doug Hermann’s check was a joke, he has…

…significant national achievement gains since, although the American public was promised dramatic improvements. This is, of course, exactly what Common Core critics predicted during attempts to repeal Common Core, with…

…Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), restores considerable control to local school stewards and liberates them from federal hectoring to be Common Core-compliant. Although it is true some irritants, such as mandatory…

…Sadly, in 2010 the commonwealth abandoned its proven math standards for $250 million in one-time federal grant money. With those dollars came nationalized Common Core math, which leaves students two…

…2008 “stimulus” money Christmas to lure nearly every state to adopt untried, then-unwritten curriculum mandates and tests called Common Core, then rate teachers and schools according to how well they…

…under attack for the texts they choose to use. [NCTE also helped write Common Core and was a big Common Core supporter and promoter.] Encouraging Teachers to ‘Betray Their Institution’…

…Common Core debacle, and worse, could taint one of the most important reforms advanced by conservatives in the states. The word “education” appears nowhere in the U.S. Constitution, but federal…

A new undercover video caught public school teachers and a textbook saleswoman saying some pretty disparaging things about the Common Core standards. The video, which was produced by James O’Keefe’s…

Homeschooling has grown 62 percent in the past decade, and in the era of Common Core and transgender bathroom dictates, that growth has only accelerated. This past school year, homeschooling…

…defend Common Core after parents nationwide succeeded in publicizing their bipartisan, now-majority opposition to it. She used her star power to promote Common Core in myriad high-profile fora. Her StudentsFirst…

…teach students educated under Common Core. They were unaware that the 2012 “agreements of collaboration” with the two Common Core testing consortia—Partnership for Assessment Readiness for College and Careers and…

…that Common Core focuses on “understanding,” solving this problem. Is that true? And to what extent should we continue to blame Common Core if so? Here’s a Case in Point…

…mandates. Essentially every standardized test in the country has become a one-way ratchet towards Common Core. The SAT and ACT are now Common Core-aligned tests, which matters to every parent…

…percent. Common Core and national testing will cut the classic fiction Bay State students read by 60 percent. Two recent national polls make clear that Common Core is now toxic…

…restrictions related to the Common Core State Standards developed under the Common Core State Standards Initiative. … The Secretary shall examine whether these regulations and guidance documents comply with Federal…

…course. 2. Common Core-Style Education Republican voters are strongly anti-Common Core, and 2016 contenders have gotten that message loud and clear. Just ask Jindal, who quickly and recently reversed his…

…helping convince Bill Gates to bankroll Common Core and push the Obama administration to foist it upon the nation using a federal grant competition during the 2008-09 recession. Common Core…

The groundwork is being laid for what will essentially be Common Core civics. The last attempt to nationalize K-12 school standards occurred with Common Core English and math. This failed…

…You Do to End Common Core? Her disclosure form shows DeVos has sent hundreds of thousands of dollars to politicians and organizations that pushed to keep Common Core in states…

…/ Creative Commons 4. Those pumpkins are really big. Like American hearts. Brian Magee / Creative Commons 5. Scoot through the animal pavilions and let the kids learn where their…

…encouraging handwriting abound. Yet, even these arguments succumb, in a way, to the pragmatic mindset of handwriting’s Common Core-toting opponents. Like Common Core supporters, interested in merely the most “useful”…

…false notes. Here’s a big one: “The bill expressly prohibits the federal government from mandating or incentivizing any particular set of academic standards, such as Common Core.” While some portions…

…obvious to anyone with, well, common sense. Self-evident Truths Citing the teachings of the eighteenth-century moral philosopher Thomas Reid, Curry argues that the “core idea” of common sense is “self-evident…

…certain. Jim Biden, however, has never repaid the approximately $650,000 to Americore, instead only paying back approximately $25,000. Americore has been charged forbearance fees and interest on this despite the…

…political awareness has baffled many Oklahomans over the years. During the 2014 election cycle, as we were fighting Common Core, my friend Joy, wearing her “Common Core is Not OK”…

…their way through the Common Core curriculum without knowing much math or science at all. Common Core proponents will say that this teaches students “metacognition”––thinking about thinking––and pushes students to…

…the last school year, largely due to Common Core. The introduction of Common Core curriculum mandates and tests into the nation’s public schools, and many private schools, has driven many…

…is part of classic literature’s well-known literary and thematic complexity, which studies show develops students’ communication and interpersonal skills. In “The Story-Killers; A Common–Sense Case Against The Common Core,” public-school…