Showing posts with label Common Core. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Common Core. Show all posts

Sunday, September 4, 2016

STANLEY KURTZ: How (and Why) the College Board Hijacked U.S. History

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Wednesday, August 3, 2016

Donald Trump's right — the system is rigged. Need proof? Look at Common Core



Despite the fact that their work would affect every child in America, deliberations took place behind closed doors. In fact, all the discussions and standards writing were sealed by confidentiality agreements. Parents were barred from attending CCSSO meetings on Common Core.

The education publication School Reform News tried for ten weeks to get permission to attend a CCSSO meeting on Common Core — but was denied.

"The public has a right to know the laws that are going to affect them and their families," observed Bill Allison of the Sunlight Foundation, a government transparency organization. But with Common Core, "it's a black box."

And when the Common Core standards were released, the Obama administration dangled $4 billion in front of state policymakers to push them to adopt the standards pronto.

States often signed onto Common Core without public input. Ze'ev Wurman, former senior education policy advisor in the George W. Bush administration, noted, "There was no discussion, no public debate."

And who benefits from this secret transformation of American education?
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Monday, May 23, 2016

"It works equally horribly for the student who wants to do better and the student who doesn't want to try too hard," said Dana Hunter of Doylestown, who sends two of her three children to Cold Spring Elementary. "I've had kids say: 'This is great. It doesn't matter how many I get wrong, I just get an M on everything.' "



As a lawyer, Dennis Weldon has to make sense of tortuous legal papers. But a year ago, the Plumstead Township resident opened a nine-page document that left him flummoxed. It was his child´s report card from Gayman Elementary School in the Central Bucks School District. Gone was the traditional A-B-C-D-F report from the teacher. Instead, parents were sent to their computers to click open a nine-page digital document with row after row of learning standards and success indicators for specific reading or math skills. Grades ranged from a high of E (exceeding standards), through M (meeting standards) and A (approaching standards), down to LP (limited progress).

Weldon said his wife, also a lawyer, struggled to comprehend the new "standards-based" report card, too. Another Central Bucks parent, a lawyer as well, told Weldon: "I don't even open it. . . . It's information overload."

...Spurred on by national guidelines set out in the Common Core State Standards for English language arts and math, scores of districts across Pennsylvania and New Jersey have moved in recent years to ditch the old-school report cards that graded students competitively against their classmates, based on tests and quizzes....
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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

No, #CommonCore hasn't been shown to work. Newest Test Scores are Bad News for Centralized Education, Common Core



...Not only has there been no meaningful evidence of the Core’s effectiveness, but right after I read Holtz-Eakins’ piece I saw that the latest National Assessment of Educational Progress scores had come out – indeed, for the very 12th grade students on the verge of college – and they had dropped in both reading and math between 2013 and 2015, and some dropped going back to 2009. This was, of course, as Common Core was being implemented nationwide. And not only did aggregate scores drop, but also scores for numerous racial and ethnic groups....
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Friday, January 15, 2016

James O'Keefe strikes again, this time, it's Common Core.



















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Sunday, September 20, 2015

Frustrated dad writes hilarious Common Core check to kid’s school

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Friday, September 4, 2015

Andrew Cuomo Says Common Core Is ‘Not Working’

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Education Secretary Arne Duncan pulls his kids from public school

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Monday, May 18, 2015

STUDENT DATA LOSS ALERT: $10Million & unknown amount of data in hands of bankrupt Common Core crony



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Wednesday, May 13, 2015

Common Core is either meaningless or antithetical to a free and pluralistic society.



...Supporters of Common Core are right to lament a broken system that produces mediocre results on average, and acts as a slaughterhouse of dreams at worse. But they have misdiagnosed the problem, and therefore propose the wrong solution. The problem isn’t that 50 states had 50 different sets of standards, but rather that a government-run schooling system lacks the ability to engage in the experimentation, end-user evaluation, and consumer-driven evolution that have produced great advances and increased productivity in other sectors. The solution, therefore, is not to grant more power to bureaucrats to remake our education system from the top down, but to support polices that empower parents to remake it from the bottom up.
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Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Megyn Kelly interviews Ted Cruz























Amanda Carpenter: CRUZ: Foreign policy ought to be dictated by vital national security interests..we should be reluctant to use military force... But if we do use military force we ought to use overwhelming force and get the heck out

Megyn Kelly: I asked @tedcruz if he would have authorized the war in #Iraq. His response: “Of course not.” #KellyFile

“I think foreign policy ought to be dictated by the vital national security interests of the United States.” #KellyFile

“It is not the job of our soldiers and sailors and airmen and Marines to transform foreign nations into democratic utopias.”







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Monday, May 11, 2015

Megyn Kelly Interviews Jeb Bush










“We’ve been dumbing things down,” says @JebBush on American education standards. #KellyFile

@JebBush on illegal immigration: “We need to enforce the laws of our country for sure, enforce the border.”

“A practical solution of getting to fixing the legal system is also allowing for a path to legalized status,” says @JebBush. #KellyFile

“What are we supposed to do – marginalize these people forever?” asks @JebBush on illegal immigration. #KellyFile

@JebBush: “There’s got to be a point where we fix this system so that legal immigration is easier than illegal immigration.” #KellyFile

I asked @JebBush if he would reverse Pres. #Obama’s executive action on immigration. His response: “Absolutely, I would.” #KellyFile

@JebBush on voters and his stance on immigration: “I get a sense that a lot of people can be persuaded.” #KellyFile

“Running for president is tough. Serving as president, which should be the objective, is a little harder,” says @JebBush. #KellyFile

“I love my brother and I respect his service,” says @JebBush on George W. Bush. ...“I do rely on him and I respect his advice.” #KellyFile

“I don’t think you’d find a stronger supporter of a strong U.S.-Israeli relationship than that of my brother,” says @JebBush. #KellyFile

“Am I the same as my brother? Of course not. I’m not,” says @JebBush. #KellyFile

U.S. foreign policy should be grounded “first and foremost in security and peace,” says @JebBush. What do you think? #KellyFile

I asked @JebBush if he would have authorized the invasion of #Iraq. His response: “I would have, and so would have #HillaryClinton.”

@JebBush says his brother, George W. Bush, thinks mistakes were made in #Iraq as well. #KellyFile

I asked @JebBush if America’s place in the world has diminished under Pres. #Obama. He said: “It has.” #KellyFile







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Tuesday, May 5, 2015

Populist Force Of Parents Against Common Core Grows Strong

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Friday, May 1, 2015

95% of Seattle's Garfield juniors refuse to take Common Core test. Spreading across WA State.

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Saturday, April 25, 2015

Student Data Tied To Common Core Off-Limits To Parents

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Friday, April 24, 2015

OBAMA EDUCATION SECRETARY: Parents Who Opt Out Of Common Core Are Racist, And the “Feds Will Step In” If Opt Out Continues



◼ OBAMA EDUCATION SECRETARY: Parents Who Opt Out of Common Core are Racists

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan issued a veiled threat to the parents and students who choose to opt out of Common Core testing – The Feds “have an obligation to step in.”
Federal law, under No Child Left Behind, requires 95 percent of students in a state to take the annual standardized tests in reading and math from grades 3-8. It is a requirement which until now has never needed enforcement or consideration.

With as many as 184,000 students in New York choosing to opt out, the 95 percent threshold will not only be in jeopardy, it will be an easily missed mark.

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Tuesday, April 21, 2015

Tennessee Legislature Repeals Common Core

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Tuesday, April 7, 2015

150 Seattle students set to boycott Common Core exam with the approval of some of their teachers

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Monday, April 6, 2015

Actually, No, Governors & Classroom Teachers Did NOT Write the Common Core Standards



◼ Ohio Governor John Kasich and other defenders are either lying or misinformed. - Paula Bolyard/PJMedia

Ohio Governor John Kasich appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace in January and made a claim about the origins of the Common Core State Standards. “These were governors who helped create Common Core,” insisted Kasich, who is pondering a presidential run. “That up-close involvement means they know Common Core wasn’t Obama-driven.” He went on to say that the standards were “written” by state education superintendents and local principals, a claim he has made repeatedly as he has stubbornly defended the standards in the face of growing public resistance. For emphasis, he added that the standards were “created by local school boards.”

Try to imagine for a moment the hilarity that would ensue during a giant conclave of governors (from both parties), state school superintendents, local principals, and local school boards tasked with writing national education standards.

But that’s not all.... KEEP READING
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Saturday, March 28, 2015

Jeb Bush expressed support through a spokesman Friday for a Senate measure discouraging federal incentives for states to adopt the Common Core education standards.



The non-binding amendment, proposed by Sen. David Vitter, R-La., and approved Thursday during a marathon voting session on the Senate budget resolution, sought to prohibit the federal government "from mandating, incentivizing or coercing states to adopt the Common Core State Standards."

Bush has faced scrutiny from conservatives for steadfastly backing the standards, in particular as he prepares to run for president. But Bush spokesman Tim Miller told the Washington Examiner Friday that the former Florida governor "applauds" Vitter's stand.

"Governor Bush applauds Senator Vitter and Republicans in the U.S. Senate for ensuring states' autonomy when it comes to adopting high standards that are right for their students," Miller said. "As Governor Bush demonstrated through his leadership in Florida, states have always been more effective at addressing policy challenges in our schools."

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