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David Coleman Lauds the Use of Student Data

June 17, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

David Coleman, President of the College Board and “chief architect” of the Common Core State Standards, spoke at the Annual Strategic Data Project (SDP) Beyond the Numbers Convening hosted by the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University.  The theme was “from the classroom to the boardroom: analytics for strategy and performance.”  He lauded […]

Filed Under: Privacy Invasion/Data Mining Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Dan Wagner, data mining, David Coleman, Harvard University, Obama for America, Strategic Data Project, student data

“State-Led” Common Core Primarily Had Only Five Writers

June 7, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

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 […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Achieve, Common Core State Standards, Council of Chief State School Officers, David Coleman, Heartland Institute, Jason Zimba, Mark Bauerlein, National Governors Association, Phil Daro, School Reform News, Susan Pimentel, William McCallum

Put Down the Common Core Kool-Aid

March 7, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

Joy Pullman has to be one of my favorite people who writes about the Common Core.  I didn’t realize that she was an Indiana resident until today.  She recently wrote this op/ed for one of her hometown newspapers, The Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette.  The first couple paragraphs of her piece articulates the skepticism we should […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core, Common Core propoganda, David Coleman, Ft. Wayne Journal Gazette, Jeb Bush, Joy Pullman, Rick Hess

8th Grade History Teacher: Stop the Common Core

January 21, 2013 By truthinamed

By C.E. White This week, President Obama will be sworn into office as the 45th President of the United States of America.  As a history teacher, I was elated to learn he would be placing his hand on two Bibles, one belonging to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the other belonging to President Abraham […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Abraham Lincoln, Barack Obama, Common Core State Standards, David Coleman, Jr., Marc Tucker, Martin Luther King, Michael Barber, Pearson, standardized testing, Student Privacy, The Gates Foundation

Classic Literature–A Bipartisan Issue

December 11, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Even the Huffington Post is noting the concern about the Common Core ELA Standards being light on classic literature for high school seniors.  They write: But the new guidelines are increasingly worrying English-lovers and English teachers, who feel they must replace literary greats like The Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye with Common Core-suggested […]

Filed Under: CCSS Content Tagged With: Common Core ELA Standards, David Coleman, Mark Bauerlein, Sandra Stotsky, The Huffington Post

How Much Literature Will Kids Actually Read?

December 5, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

SchoolBook recently interviewed David Coleman who is now President of the College Board before his tenure there he was one of the chief authors of the Common Core State Standards.  He defended against the charge that 70% of the reading that will be done under the ELA standards are informational texts saying literature remains critical. […]

Filed Under: CCSS Content, Education at State Level Tagged With: College Board, Common Core ELA Standards, David Coleman, Gretchen Logue, Sandra Stotsky

Common Core Propaganda: Who Created the Standards Exactly?

August 29, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Propaganda has accompanied the Common Core State Standards, but now they are being implemented expect it to come out even more.  I wanted to point out an example that was emailed to me yesterday.  From a piece written by Cammy Harbison at Voxxi.com.  She writes about the benefits of the common core state standards, and […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation Tagged With: authors of Common Core State Standards, Cammy Harbison, CCSS development, CCSS Implementation, Common Core State Standards, David Coleman

Why Homeschoolers & Christian School Parents Should Be Concerned About the Common Core

August 7, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

A couple of our partners were interviewed by Napp Nazworth of The Christian Post.  They both expressed concerns about the Federal government’s involvement in promoting the Common Core State Standards and what that could mean for homeschooling and Christian schools in the future. In an interview with The Christian Post, Maureen Van Den Berg, legislative […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards, Homeschool / Private School Tagged With: American Association of Christian Schools, College Board, Common Core State Standards, David Coleman, Home School Legal Defense Association, Maureen Van Den Berg, Napp Nazworth, SAT exam, The Christian Post, William Estrada

Now We See How A Common Core Failure Will Be Spun

July 17, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Blame the teachers… via EdWeek’s Andrew Ujifusa reporting from the Education Commission of States policy meeting that was held in Atlanta last week: Zimba fended off a question from an audience member about whether the common core had been comprehensively tested in the field by saying the common core is the result of a decade-long […]

Filed Under: CCSS Implementation Tagged With: Andrew Ujifusa, Common Core English/Language Arts Standards, Common Core Math Standards, David Coleman, Jason Zimbia

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