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Common Core Common Sense: Why It’s Illiberal and Unconstitutional

June 11, 2013 By truthinamed

By Dr. Daniel B. Coupland On May 29th, 2009, Arne Duncan, the new Secretary of Education for the Obama Administration, gave a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. In the speech, he said, We want to raise the bar dramatically in terms of high standards. What we have had as a country, […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: 10th Amendment, A Nation at Risk, Arne Duncan, Common Core Cost, Common Core ELA Standards, Common Core Math Standards, Common Core Quality, Common Core State Standards, constituitionality of Common Core, Cultural Literacy, Diane Ravitch, E.D. Hirsch, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, Heartland Institute, Horace Mann, James Milgram, Joy Pullmann, Michelle Rhee, Michigan House of Representatives, National Press Club, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top, Randi Weingarten, Republican National Committee, Sandra Stotsky, States Fighting Common Core, Student Privacy, Texas House of Representatives, The Knowledge Deficit, Ze'ev Wurman

Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s History of Backing Poor Education Policy

April 19, 2013 By Erin Tuttle

With the Indiana Chamber of Commerce’s bad track record on education policy why are we listening to them about the Common Core State Standards?

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Education at State Level Tagged With: A Nation at Risk, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, David Holt, Indiana Chamber of Commerce, Indiana House, Indiana Senate, Kevin Brinegar, Margaret Spellings, No Child Left Behind, PARCC, U.S. Chamber of Commerce

Obama Has Politically Scrambled the Decks on Education

September 13, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Jim Stergios of the Pioneer Institute wrote an op/ed last week for the Boston Globe entitled “Schools and conventional wisdom.”  He said something that articulates what I’ve been noticing with the education scene with the two major political parties. If the Republican convention showed us anything about Republicans’ views about education, it demonstrated just how […]

Filed Under: Federalized Education Tagged With: A Nation at Risk, Barack Obama, centralization of education, Jim Stergios, Race to the Top, Republican National Convention

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