Fight the Core

[...] The New American 12 November 2013 As the uproar grows against the Obama administration-pushed Common Core nationalized education standards, a coalition of more than 130 prominent Catholic scholars and [...]

[...] against Common Core. Monday night at a Kasich rally to get out the vote in West Chester, Governor Kasich and the [...]

[...] , they are called “Common Core State Standards” (CCSS), and the federal government is prohibited by the Constitution and U.S. [...]

[...] sign up for the Common Core to obtain so-called “No Child Left Behind” waivers. And in an effort to ensure that all [...]

[...] over academic decline. Geography as a distinct subject has virtually disappeared from the public schools during the past several decades. In 1965 the Association of American Geographers warned of [...]

[...] Lawrence Cremin, these zealous missionaries for a new social order believed that, “once public schools were established, no evil could resist their salutary influence. Universal education could be [...]

[...] 2012 To this writer, and a good many of his friends on the Right, the best way to reform the public schools is to get the government out of the education business. Most of us believe that a government [...]

[...] at home or place them in private schools. The grip the progressive liberals have on the public schools is too strong, and the likelihood of “taking them back” was impossible. That pessimistic view [...]

[...] human toll of the standardized testing are only one problem of Common Core. Allowing the federal government this much control over education, via Common Core, which is administered by progressive [...]

[...] across the country this year, who declare that the standards are a bid by the federal government to take over the education system. Additionally, privacy advocates have voiced concerns [...]

[...] repair and estimates for those repairs are as high as $4.5 billion. States are asking the federal government to pay the tab for the cost of educating the illegal immigrant children. Arizona and [...]

[...] to stretch across the nation; two standardized assessments funded and reviewed by the federal government; and detailed data systems directly accessed by the U.S. Dept. of Education that will track [...]

[...] December, the Newman Society issued the following statement regarding the adoption of the Common Core standards by 100 of the nation’s Catholic dioceses: We have grave concerns. This school reform [...]

[...] between those publishers who have chosen to align their instructional products with the Common Core standards and those who have not. Tina Hollenbeck, a former public school teacher, now a [...]

[...] has been bribed by the federal government to accept the copyrighted and thus unalterable common core standards — even though most Americans have no idea what they entail — by offering those states [...]

[...] opposes them; Wilson supports them.” Richard Woods on Common Core: Do you support the Common Core Standards? Why or why not? As a Republican candidate for State School Superintendent in 2010, I [...]

[...] The New American 07 August 2014 With summer waning and another school year on the horizon, a new crop of [...]

[...] The New American 18 October 2011 “This is a story of our children and an ideological struggle in which our [...]

[...] government intrusion if they want to maintain control over their children’s schooling. The New American 15 October 2014 An education expert who heads up a popular online K-12 school is advising [...]

[...] public schools, and the best is Freedom Education Project, offering a classical education. The New American 30 November 2011 First, the online lessons must be separate from public schools. Take the [...]

[...] of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Education. [...]

[...] and young people from kindergarten through the 12th grade. An excellent example is FreedomProject Education, which offers a superb, Christian-based homeschooling program through the use of the [...]

[...] of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Education. [...]

[...] of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Education. [...]

[...] in Texas. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Education. [...]

[...] in Texas. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Education. [...]

[...] in Texas. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Education. [...]

[...] in Texas. He is a professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh and the Academic Director of FreedomProject Education. [...]

[...] from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University. He has taught at major research institutions and small liberal arts colleges, and his been [...]

[...] from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University. He has taught at major research institutions and small liberal arts colleges, and his been [...]

[...] from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University. He has taught at major research institutions and small liberal arts colleges, and his been [...]

[...] from John Carroll University and his Ph.D. in Shakespeare and Renaissance literature from Purdue University. He has taught at major research institutions and small liberal arts colleges, and his been [...]

[...] We are living through the greatest coverup of educational malpractice this nation has ever known, and we will not be able to correct the situation until enough [...]

[...] . Thus, the public education systems of the two largest states in America would engage in educational malpractice on an unheard of scale and produce functional illiterates by the millions. What is so [...]

[...] of Americans like the Rockefeller boys who must endure the crippling consequences of educational malpractice. But what borders on the criminal is that these professors were aware that their teaching [...]

[...] nation on earth out of ignorance. Related articles: Readingate: The 100-Year Coverup of Educational Malpractice Readingate: The 100-Year Coverup of Educational Malpractice, Part 2 Readingate: The 100- [...]

[...] . In retrospect, many of these reforms have inflicted more damage on students and on academic standards than the alleged evils that they were intended to stamp out. In “Patterns of Black [...]

[...] Department has overstepped its authority and gives states more freedom to choose their own academic standards, among other things. “The department has become, in effect, a national school board,” [...]

[...] placate angry parents and taxpayers, some states and school districts have enacted tougher academic standards for both students and teachers and inaugurated stricter disciplinary codes on campus. But [...]

[...] -thinking skills. Of course, Common Core supporters claim the standards will “raise academic standards,” the Catholic scholars noted. “But we find persuasive the critiques of [...]