Tag: National Governors Association
The Tennessean’s Inaccurate Editorial
The editorial board at The Tennessean clucks its tongue at parents and citizens who recently showed up to protest the Common Core State Standards being implemented in their state in an editorial yesterday. Apparently Tennessee legislators, parents and citizens are to blindly accept as fact the talking points circulated by those who advocate for the Common [...]
Gates, Not the States, Driving Education Policy?
Further evidence that the Common Core is special-interest driven and led, not state-led. Joy Pullman writing for the Heartland Institute’s School Reform News pointed out how the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is driving education policy through its funding. Some excerpts: A recent example was a January legislative hearing on the Common Core, an initiative [...]
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 [...]
Why are Tax-Funded Common Core Meetings Closed to the Public?
Joy Pullman, research fellow at The Heartland Institute and the managing editor of School Reform News, reports that the meetings of Council of Chief State School Officers to write and discuss the Common Core State Standards are closed to the public. Meetings between members of the Council of Chief State School Officers to write and [...]
Pioneer Institute Study Suggests Remedies for Common Core’s Literature Deficit
A new study released by Pioneer Institute shows that states that have adopted the Common Core State Standards should include a literature-based standard.
Common Core Reversing Massachusetts’ Educational Achievements
I wanted to draw your attention to an op/ed written by James Stergios, Charles Chieppo and Jamie Gass of the Pioneer Institute entitled “The Massachusetts Exception” published at The City Journal. An excerpt: It’s common knowledge that in 1983, a federal report called A Nation at Risk indicted the “rising tide of mediocrity” in American [...]
Updated: S.C. Governor Nikki Haley Backs Bill to Block Implementation of Common Core State Standards
The AP reported that South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley favors the bill introduced by S.C. State Senator Mike Fair (R-Greenville) that would block the Common Core State Standards from being implemented in South Carolina. They are currently slated to go into affect in 2014. The AP quotes Governor Haley in a letter to State Senator [...]
The Common Core in North Carolina
By chance, I came across this 2010 quote from North Carolina’s State Superintendent of Public Instruction, June Atkinson. It isn’t often that curriculum development takes front and center, but lately it has. Yesterday the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices (NGA Center) released the draft [...]
