Truth in American Education

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

Pioneer Institute Study: Massachusetts “Eviscerates” Its K-12 History Standards

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The Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education should reject a proposed rewrite of the Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework in its entirety and immediately restore the state’s 2003 framework

238 Education Data Bills Hit State Capitols in 2018 So Far

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Data Quality Campaign reports there are 238 bills related to education data in state legislatures this year so far, and less than a third (70) have anything to do with protecting student data privacy.

Co-Author of 1993 MA Ed Reform Act Concerned About Current Policies

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Massachusetts Education Reform Act co-author and former Senate President Tom Birmingham praised the historic success that has been achieved since the law was enacted in 1993, but expressed concern that the Commonwealth is veering away from basic principles of the law that produced that success.

Five Problems with Massachusetts’ Draft History and Social Science Curriculum Framework

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The January 2018 Public Comment Draft of the Massachusetts History and Social Science Curriculum Framework (2018 Revision) follows in the footsteps of other recent revisions of the Science, English Language Arts and mathematics standards. The proposed framework eviscerates the 2003 framework.

Massachusetts’ New Standards Are Still Inferior to Pre-2010 Standards

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The Pioneer Institute released a report co-written by Mark Bauerlein, R. James Milgram, and Jane Robbins that reviews Massachusetts new academic standards.