The Heritage Foundation and Pioneer Institute co-hosted a panel discussion entitled “Rethinking Federal Intervention in K-12 Education”
Heritage Foundation: Six Things Betty DeVos Should Do In Her First 100 Days
The Heritage Foundation outline six things that President-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Education nominee, Betsy DeVos, in her first 100 days.
Heritage Report: Common Core and the Centralization of American Education
The Heritage Foundation released a new report, co-written by well-known Common Core fighters, focused on how Common Core had centralized American education.
U.S. Senate Passes the Every Child Achieves Act 81-17
The U.S. Senate passed S.1177, the Every Child Achieves Act, on a 81 to 17 vote on Thursday afternoon spending seven days debating the bill.
Video: Confronting the Common Core Event in Tennessee
Video from the April 30th event, Confronting the Common Core, in Franklin, TN was recently released. Speakers included Jamie Gass of The Pioneer Institute, Lindsey Burke of The Heritage Foundation, Bill Evers of the Hoover Institution, and Emmett McGroarty & Jane Robbins of American Principles Project.
Stopping Common Core is Only the Beginning
As parents have encountered Common Core in their children’s classrooms, then sought information about what it means, we’ve seen a nationwide brushfire of alarm. Parents must know Common Core did not randomly appear. I’m not talking about how it was created and advocated by the Gates Foundation, National Governors Association, and Council of Chief State […]
Reclaiming Education Freedom: The Fight to Stop Common Core National Standards and Tests
The Heritage Foundation and Claire Boothe Luce Foundation had a great event for conservative women discussing the Common Core. I caught about the last 20 minutes of it. Lindsey Burke of Heritage spoke first, then Joy Pullmann of the Heartland Institute gave her remarks. They ended with a brief Q&A session. The video is now […]
John Stossel Discusses Common Core
John Stossel on Fox Business discussed the Common Core State Standards with Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation and Kathleen Porter-Magee of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. You can watch below: Porter-Magee said that “they” were amazed when so many states signed on. Yeah, we were amazed too, but for different reasons I’d suspect. HT: […]
Lessons from Iowa on Fighting for Local Control
Lindsey Burke of The Heritage Foundation had an op/ed published in Deseret News entitled “Lessons for Utah from Iowa: Fight for control of education.” She wrote: If the centralizing impact of the Obama education waivers wasn’t already clear, the recent decision by the U.S. Department of Education to issue its first waiver rejection to Iowa […]
Three Exit Strategies from the Common Core for State Leadership
Good stuff from Lindsey Burke of the Heritage Foundation: State leaders who believe that previous state leaders have surrendered control of their standards-setting authority to national organizations and Washington have an exit strategy they can pursue. States should consider the following three strategies: Determine how the decision was made to cede the state’s standard-setting authority. […]