FLORIDA CATHOLICS AGAINST COMMON CORE

[...] 1. Common Core State Standards (CCSS), as an education reform policy, does not satisfy the four pillars of [...]

[...] We must do all we can to stop Common Core in the Catholic schools of Florida. Don’t take my word for it. Do your own research. Common [...]

[...] In fact, we are convinced that Common Core is so deeply flawed that it should not be adopted by Catholic schools which have yet to approve [...]

[...] STOP COMMON CORE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS -SEND LETTER TO FL BISHOPS Read the petition First Name Last Name Email [...]

[...] innovate and that they are responsive to the latest trends in education, it may be wise for Catholic schools to hit the pause button on the Common Core and consider what is becoming more evident [...]

[...] “Catholic schools must consider standards that support the mission and purpose of the school as a Catholic [...]

[...] line. I honestly believe that those two things have made a huge difference in the way the Catholic schools are now questioning Common Core. The Holy Spirit is now working full-time and with Pentecost [...]

[...] pressures and money handouts.  For the school year, 2014-2015, all Palm Beach County Catholic schools WILL NOT BE FOLLOWING COMMON CORE STANDARDS! NO COMMON CORE FOR THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS IN THE [...]

[...] drives its standards and these standards drive curriculum, we should not simply use the Common Core Standards as our base and then make some adaptations. The Common Core State Standards are explicitly [...]

[...] methods and 4) Expanded choices for parents. Accountability for implementing the Common Core Standards (that were not properly piloted or vetted) unfairly rests predominantly, and without [...]

[...] behind their top scoring international peers. Also, according to some experts, since the Common Core Standards do not specifically address upper level high school math, the program does not include [...]

[...] delay Common Core for 2 years. The Governor of Florida has signed 3 bills against Common Core standards. Governor Rick Scott told The Report Card’s Bill Korach that Common Core is no [...]

[...] , for many, many young children.” The philosophy of Common Core is antithetical to true Catholic education. It is a workforce-development scheme that treats the individual as human capital, to be [...]

[...] , much of it in Catholic schools. We are all personally and professionally devoted to Catholic education in America. For these reasons we take this extraordinary step of addressing each of America’ [...]

[...] to the Bishop. Our family and our children have been raised in the Catholic Faith attending Catholic education. I now have major questions and grave concerns about my faith and its embrace of Common [...]

[...] to Coke.”  Let’s lean from Coke, and, while we are at it, let’s borrow something else: “Catholic education, it’s the real thing.” (Photo credit: Salvatore Laporta / AP) [...]

[...] , stated quite clearly that high math standards were not necessary in high school. 80.  The federal EDFacts Exchange collects data for local, [...]

[...] takes students only to an incomplete algebra II course.  One of the lead architects of the math standards, Jason Zimba, has admitted that Common Core prepares students for a nonselective community [...]

[...] of educational experts (such as James Milgram, professor emeritus of mathematics at Stanford University, and Sandra Stotsky, professor emerita of education at the University of Arkansas) who have [...]

[...] (Hillsdale College), Dr.Christopher Tienken (Seton Hall University), Dr. James Milgram (Stanford University), Dr. Sandra Stotsky (University of Arkansas), Dr. Alan Manning (Brigham Young University), [...]

[...] college, not a four-year university.  Likewise, James Milgram, professor emeritus of Stanford University and the Common Core Validation Committee’s only mathematician (as opposed to math-education [...]

[...] have major questions and grave concerns about my faith and its embrace of Common Core, the educational program the Federal government is pushing. I fear not only for Catholic students but for all [...]

[...] have major questions and grave concerns about my faith and its embrace of Common Core, the educational program the Federal government is pushing. I fear not only for Catholic students but for all [...]

[...] upon particular standards in English and math. Supporters say that Common Core will “raise academic standards.” But we find persuasive the critiques of educational experts (such as James Milgram, [...]

[...] of Common Core can only be an advertising moniker because there is absolutely no way for academic standards to determine student interests and talents other than in general/common requirement terms [...]

[...] outperform government schools, even those government schools in states with the highest curriculum standards. Catholic school 8th graders have led public school 8th graders by double digit margins [...]

[...] University of America Daniel J. Costello, Jr. Bettex Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus University of Notre Dame Brian Scarnecchia, Associate Professor of Law Ave Maria School of Law Thomas [...]