Fighting to stop the Common Core State Standards, their Assessments and Student Data Mining.
Members of the West Virginia Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Education held a public hearing on Common Core standards and West Virginia’s Next Generation standards on December 16th. It included testimony from those who support and those who oppose Common Core. Speakers opposed to the Common Core included Sandra Stotsky and Ted Rebarber.
You can watch the entire hearing below.
Shane Vander Hart is one of the administrators and frequent writer at Truth in American Education and an advocate with this network of grassroots activists this website represents. He is the editor of Caffeinated Thoughts, a popular conservative Christian multi-contributor website based in Iowa that focuses on state and national politics, culture, current events, and faith. He is cofounder of Iowa RestorEd, a grassroots group that wants to restore Iowa’s place at the top U.S. K-12 education. Shane also is the online communications director for American Principles Project. Feel free to follow Shane on Facebook, Twitter, or on Google Plus.
Chemistry teacher... says
Unfortunately the ngss passed….WV places general science as the recommended third science for college bound students who are not STEM….it had been chemistry….this dumbs down the college bound student.