Truth in American Education

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

  • Home
  • About Us
    • TAE Advocates
    • Network Participants
    • Related Websites
  • Common Core State Standards
    • National Education Standards
    • Gates Foundation & NCEE Influence
    • State Costs for Adopting and Implementing the Common Core State Standards
    • National Curriculum
    • Common Core State Standards Content
      • Standard Algorithms in the Common Core State Standards
    • Myths Versus Facts
    • States Fighting Back Map
    • Closing the Door on Innovation
    • CCSSI Development Teams
  • Common Core Assessments
    • Opt Out Info
  • Race To The Top
    • District-Level Race to the Top–Race to the Top IV
  • Resources
    • Legislative Bills Against CCSS
    • Pioneer Institute White Papers
    • Model Resolutions
    • Parents’ & Educators’ Executive Order
    • CC = Conditions + Coercion + Conflict of Interest
  • Audio & Video
  • Privacy Issues and State Longitudinal Data Systems
    • Statewide Longitudinal Data Systems
  • ESEA/NCLB
    • Statements and Proposed Plans
    • Every Child Achieves Act July 2015
    • Student Success Act
    • Every Child Ready for College or Career Act
    • No Child Left Behind Waivers
    • ESEA Blueprint, Briefing Book, and Position Paper
  • Home School/Private School
  • Action Center
    • Parent and Community Action Plan
    • Stop CCSSI ToolKit
    • Sign Up or Contact TAE

The Wrong Lesson on Early Childhood Education

October 11, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

The takeaway of a study of six nations that spends more money per child than the U.S. on early childhood education is that we need a greater investment.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: early childhood education, preschool

Does Pre-K Hurt Academic Achievement?

July 18, 2018 By Shane Vander Hart

A study conducted by Vanderbilt University researchers found academic gains achieved by students in Tennessee pre-K classrooms began to fade out by first grade and vanished by third grade.

Filed Under: Education Reform Tagged With: Dale Farran, early childhood education, Mark Lipsey, pre-K, preschool, Tennessee

Rigorous Preschool?

May 30, 2017 By Shane Vander Hart

The New York Times highlights a new national study that preschoolers exposed to formal math and reading lessons come out ahead of preschoolers who don’t.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Common Core, preschool

The Push for Pre-K Appears to Be Unjustified

November 2, 2016 By Shane Vander Hart

A study of Tennessee’s pre-K program shows that no only does academic gains not persist beyond Kindergarten, but those students perform worse.

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Brookings Institute, Common Core, Dale Farran, early childhood education, Head Start, Mark Lipsey, Peabody Research Institute, pre-K, preschool

Enter “Baby Common Core” with New Head Start Performance Standards

September 23, 2016 By Karen Effrem

Karen Effrem: The feds continue its long march to ensnare more of our children in its tentacles at an ever-younger age. “Baby Common Core” has reared its ugly head.

Filed Under: Federalized Education Tagged With: Baby Common Core, Common Core State Standards, Head Start, Head Start Performance Standards, preschool

Your Kids Can’t Handle the Common Core, Put Them in Pre-K

March 8, 2013 By Shane Vander Hart

And it begins…. From SchoolBook a blog about New York City Schools: With the pre-kindergarten application season officially underway, Schools Chancellor Dennis Walcott was touting the early childhood program as an important first step in molding students under the Common Core learning standards. The key, he said, is fostering independence in the classroom at a […]

Filed Under: Common Core State Standards Tagged With: Common Core State Standards, Dennis Walcott, New York City Schools, pre-K, preschool

Iowa Legislature to Consider Testing Preschoolers

November 19, 2012 By Shane Vander Hart

Because we don’t do enough standardized testing.  The Des Moines Register reports that the 35-member early childhood task force recommends that all 4-year-olds enrolled in preschool be required to take the same test so they can keep better track of their progress. A 35-member early childhood task force on Thursday chose a test now used […]

Filed Under: Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Privacy/SLDS Tagged With: Iowa Early Childhood Task Force, Iowa Legislature, preschool

  • Email
  • Facebook
  • Phone
  • Twitter

States Fighting Back

https://app.box.com/s/10nl1409mkaf00zzzuyf

CCSS Opt-Out Form

  • Click here to download the CCSS Opt-Out Form

Follow us on Twitter

My Tweets

Campbell’s Law

"The more any quantitative social indicator is used for social decision-making, the more subject it will be to corruption pressures and the more apt it will be to distort and corrupt the social processes it is intended to monitor."

- Donald Campbell

Copyright © 2019 Truth in American Education · Developed & Hosted by 4:15 Communications, LLC.