Truth in American Education

Fighting to stop the Common Core State Standards, their Assessments and Student Data Mining.

Video: How Corporations and Big Government Collaborate

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The Heritage Foundation this morning hosted a panel discussion with Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins with American Principles Project and Erin Tuttle with Hoosiers Against Common Core to discuss their book Deconstructing the Administrative State: The Fight for Liberty.  

Conservative Groups Oppose Mike Pence’s Education Reform Agenda

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Over 30 conservative reform groups in Indiana publicly released an agenda for education reform to counter Governor Mike Pence’s education reform agenda.

Comparing Indiana's "New" K-12 Math Standards with Common Core

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Hoosiers Against Common Core has released the side by side comparison of the new Indiana math standards to the Indiana 2009 standards and the Common Core. (LINK PROVIDED AT BOTTOM OF POST) The comparison was performed by Ze’ev Wurman who served on the highly acclaimed California mathematics standards committee and is a former Us Department […]

Indiana’s Draft Standards: A Scoop of Common Core with Some Junk on Top?

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The idea for pausing the Common Core in Indiana and then putting the kibosh on them is that the Hoosier state would actually come away with better standards. Somebody needs to tell that to the review committee working on them.  I’ve already written that it looks like the math standards will continue to use fuzzy […]

Indiana Senate to Vote on Bill Abolishing Common Core

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From WIBC 93.1FM in Indianapolis: The Senate will vote next week on a bill to put the final nail in the coffin of the Common Core education standards. Last year, legislators ordered the State Board of Education to pass new academic standards by July of this year. The Senate Education Committee has approved a bill […]

Indiana Democrats Put Politics Before Kids, Skip Common Core Vote

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I can’t believe I missed this news last week.  It needs to be shouted from the rooftops. Members of the Indiana legislative study committee formed by the pause legislation passed last session voted 6 to 1 in favor of replacing the Common Core… a twist though since all Democrat members minus one decided not to […]

Photos: Ohio is Jazzed About #StopCommonCore

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Ohio had some informational meetings about the Common Core at three different locations throughout the state.  Ohioans Against Common Core has an update here.  Between 850-1000 attended.  The photos below are from Jamie Gass of the Pioneer Institute who was one of the speakers. The speakers for these events were: Cincinnati – held April 12th […]