Richard P. Phelps of Nonpartisan Education Review provides a historical, financial and media analyses of six different Common Core collaborators.
More Parents Indicate They Will Refuse the Test
A new poll by Achieve, Inc, shows more parents intend to opt their students out of standardized assessments this coming 2016-2017 school year.
“State-Led” Common Core Primarily Had Only Five Writers
Joy Pullmann at School Reform News wrote an excellent piece that helps to further demonstrate that the Common Core State Standards were not state-led. While there were many people who served on various committees and work groups all of the feedback was filtered by only five people. After giving a brief history of what led […]
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 […]
If the Public is in the Dark About the Common Core, Just Do Some Poll Manipulation
Robert Holland, a senior fellow for education policy with the Heartland Institute, wrote an excellent op/ed in The Washington Times highlighting how the general public is in the dark about the Common Core State Standards: Achieve, a band of like-minded corporate moguls that formed in 1996 to push national education standards, had to report rather […]
Some Fuzzy Research on Common Core Math Standards
Achieve pointed out new research that links Common Core Math Standards to higher achievement. Fascinating since those standards haven’t been implemented yet. Maybe they are testing them on animal subjects… somebody better warn PETA. Oh never mind, here’s how they got their results… Schmidt’s work focuses on the strong resemblance of the CCSS for mathematics […]
ALEC Education Task Force Approves Anti-Common Core Model Legislation
The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) met last week in Scottsdale, AZ. They are an organization whose mission is “to advance the Jeffersonian principles of free markets, limited government, federalism, and individual liberty, through a nonpartisan public-private partnership of America’s state legislators, members of the private sector, the federal government, and general public.” They have […]
Iowa to Help Lead Undemocratic Process to Advance National Science Standards
Jason Glass, the Director of the Iowa Department of Education, announced last week that Iowa was one of 20 states that will lead the development of the “Next Generation Science Standards” which is part of the Common Core State Standards that is being managed by Achieve (read Bill Gates), which is a non-profit education reform […]