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[...] When I wrote last week that the Common Core State Standards were like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for all good progressives, [...]

[...] of history. Along with all of the frustrated students, parents and teachers that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been racking up, perhaps other casualties of the standards are the [...]

[...] and criticized for posting the picture, by people on both sides of what’s known as the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).  Critics of the posting say all kids hate doing homework and they [...]

[...] This wasn’t the post I expected to be writing about the Common Core State Standards today. But sometimes you hear something so alarming, it just can’t wait. [...]

[...] the framework for the AP U.S. History course, known as APUSH. Imagine sitting in a class on American history and not being exposed to Thomas Jefferson and Ben Franklin. Or getting merely a brief [...]

[...] .” She goes on to say that college students are graduating with little understanding of American history because courses in it are no longer required on most campuses: “We aren’t [...]

[...] UK’s Daily Mail says that makes the Clintons the wealthiest former first family in American history. But she kept up this “Working Everywoman” façade and stepped in it again over the [...]

[...] (Hillary Clinton). While watching this film, you get a sense of how important it is to learn American history, and how much has already been lost due to revisionism. After all, you can’t really know [...]

[...] the court overturned a state law setting aside a moment of silence for voluntary prayer in public schools. In 2000, the court overruled a Texas law allowing high school students to pray at athletic [...]

[...] of you to stand up in a single-file line so we can walk to the gymnasium.” In the public schools of Lincoln, Nebraska, it will become: “Okay purple penguins, please line up so we [...]

[...] staged in order to make a point about the controversial CCSS that have been implemented in public schools in nearly all of the states in the nation. Kelly, a mother of three, defended the photo and [...]

[...] When I wrote last week that the Common Core State Standards were like the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for all good progressives, I based [...]

[...] of history. Along with all of the frustrated students, parents and teachers that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) have been racking up, perhaps other casualties of the standards are the works of [...]

[...] students in APUSH, it will most certainly have a negative ripple effect. Unlike the Common Core State Standards that have been delayed in many states as parents continue to learn more about it, APUSH [...]

[...] “I was alone, but I wasn’t afraid.” With those words, 4-year-old Colton Burpo begins to tell his father Todd what he saw as he lay on an operating table as doctors worked [...]

[...] of Arkansas Professor of Education Reform Sandra Stotsky wrote about the Common Core Math Standards for the Pioneer Institute, a non-partisan private organization that is advocating strongly [...]

[...] may have to lower their math standards in order to align with Common Core. That will hurt high-achieving students who want to pursue STEM careers, and could in the long-term, lead to a lowering of [...]

[...] achievement gap between lower and higher income students will widen under CCSS: “High-achieving students in academically oriented private and suburban schools will continue to get the rich [...]

[...] also the lead environmentalist against the proposed Canadian-XL pipeline project that the Obama administration has been stalling on for years. McKibben is known for his beliefs that population must be [...]

[...] is good when it causes this much stress in a 2nd grader.  I don’t think math homework brought me to tears until high school geometry. What I’ve learned about CCSS isn& [...]