Tag: local control in education
Why Conservatives Object to the Common Core
Kathleen Porter-Magee & Sol Stern ask in the subheading of their National Review article defending the Common Core State Standards ask “why are prominent conservatives criticizing a set of rigorous educational standards?” There are others who have provided direct rebuttals. I want to answer their primary question. While I’m not a “prominent conservative,” I am [...]
American Educator Magazine: Local Control Led to Educational Inequality
Local control is bad, horrible, no good if you were to listen to the arguments being made by William Schmidt and Nathan Burroughs in their article in the Spring 2013 edition of American Educator which is a publication of American Federation of Teachers. They promote the standard talking points – “it resembles the standards of [...]
Glenn Beck Outs the Common Core
Glenn Beck today highlighted the Common Core on his show on The Blaze TV. His guests were Emmett McGroarty of American Principles Project, Sherena Arrington, a political consultant from Georgia, and two teachers from Utah, David Cox and Christel Swasey. Beck in his opening remarks gave a wake-up call for those who may be apathetic [...]
Welcome Idahoans for Local Education
On behalf of Truth in American Education I’d like to welcome Idahoans for Local Education as one of our new participants. This is a new group started by Stephanie Zimmerman who has tirelessly fought against the Common Core in her state. Their stated mission is: …to preserve Idaho’s local educational sovereignty by keeping the decision [...]
Debunking Misconceptions: “The Common Core is State-Led”
I thought that I would start a series on common misconceptions related to the Common Core State Standards. I don’t know how frequently I’ll come back to this series, but as these misconceptions come up or as I hear them I want to address them. The first is one that I hear quite frequently and [...]
Indiana Republican Assembly Endorses Repeal of Common Core State Standards
BEECH GROVE, INDIANA, January 22, 2013 — The Indiana Republican Assembly (INRA) rejects the lowered standards for Indiana schoolchildren developed by Washington-based interest groups and pushed by the Obama administration. We endorse Indiana State Senator Scott Schneider’s effort to repeal Indiana’s ill-adopted Common Core State Standards and replace them with Indiana produced standards. Senator Schneider [...]
Glenda Ritz’ Opposition to Common Core Highlighted
Since Glenda Ritz is now the Indiana Superintendent of Public Instruction-Elect she’ll need to be reminded of what she wrote prior to her election on November 7th. This is one of the primary reasons Tony Bennett lost. Erin Tuttle at Hoosiers Against Common Core highlighted her position statement: Common Core Standards must be re-evaluated.Indiana had [...]
Tom Latham: Bring Back Control and Power of Education to State and School Districts
I had the opportunity to recently interview Congressman Tom Latham (R-IA) for Caffeinated Thoughts. He is running against Congressman Leonard Boswell (D-IA) in Iowa’s newly drawn 3rd Congressional District. We had a chance to discuss Federal involvement in education. “No Child Left Behind was an experiment with great intentions that hasn’t worked because of the [...]
Education Debated in Iowa Congressional Race
Congressman Steve King (R-Kiron) and former First Lady of Iowa Christie Vilsack (D-Ames) had their final debate in the Iowa 4th Congressional District race. The first question dealt with No Child Left Behind. Below is the audio of that section of the debate from Iowans for Local Control. I’m curious is education being discussed in [...]
2012 Republican Platform on Education
The Republican Party released its final draft of this year’s platform. The delegates assembling in Tampa, FL this week for the Republican National Convention will vote on it. I wanted to read what they had to say about education. Some excerpts: First you see an overall summary of where they’re headed a push for local [...]
