From the Deseret News: In 2010, Utah and other states rushed to join the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortia, or SBAC, for two reasons. First, to escape the strictures imposed on educators and students by the federal No Child Left Behind Act. Second, to receive federal money the Obama administration promised to disburse from stimulus funding. […]

Dear David, Congratulations on becoming the new head of the College Board. I know, as a Founding Father of the national standards effort, you may have read certain things I have written that you do not agree with. While I haven’t met you personally yet, I look forward to it. I have heard universally that you […]

The New York Times has the story on the appointment of David Coleman to head the College Board: David Coleman, an architect of the common core curriculum standards that are being adopted in nearly all 50 states, will become the president of the College Board, starting in October. The College Board, a membership organization of high […]

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WSJ piece covers the Common Core fight: The Common Core national math and reading standards, adopted by 46 states and the District of Columbia two years ago, are coming under attack from some quarters as a federal intrusion into state education matters. The voluntary academic standards, which specify what students should know in each grade, […]

Pioneer Institute’s Jamie Gass published an great op-ed on poetry in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette entitled: “Leaves of Memory Going Dark.” April was National Poetry Month and there’s nowhere that designation should have more meaning than in Massachusetts, where John Adams’ 1780 state constitution explicitly instructs future leaders to “cherish the interests of literature.” […]

The erudite Jim Stergios has just released the second in a series of articles highlighting the numerous conflicts of interest that have riddled advocates of the Common Core.  The first article he defines the issue of the Common Core conflicts of interest: “No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because […]

Conservative columnist Maggie Gallagher highlights the bright initial instincts of Governor Sarah Palin and Governor Rick Perry on the Common Core in a Real Clear Politics op-ed: Sarah Palin was the first to recognize the problem: By participating in President Obama’s signature education initiative, the Common Core Standards, Alaska would lose control over its own […]

Heritage held a panel and put out a memo on exiting the Common Core.  It was a great panel featuring Jim Stergios from the Pioneer Institute, Williamson Evers of the Hoover Institute, Kent Talbert, former acting secretary at the US Department of Education, and Theodore Rebarber of AccountabilityWorks.   As always, Heritage resources are succinct and […]

Hoover Institute Fellow David Davenport frames the Race to the Top battle in a larger federalism context in a Forbes article: You may wonder, for example, how K-12 education, a classic state and local policy matter, has become federalized through “No Child Left Behind” and “Race to the Top” reform programs.  The answer is:  through the Congressional […]