Truth in American Education

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

Washington State Joins Common Core Fight

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Washington State Senators introduce a bill, SB 6030, that would effectively withdraw the State of Washington from the Common Core and Smarter Balanced.

Common Core Repeal Bill Being Considered in North Dakota House

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The North Dakota House is considering a bill, HB 1461, that would withdraw the state from Smarter Balanced and repeal the Common Core State Standards.

Smarter Balanced Gets a Foothold in Washington State Universities

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Education Week reported that state universities in Washington will use Smarter Balanced Assessment for 11th graders in their course placement decisions. The announcement is significant because it puts teeth into the most pivotal claim of the common-core initiative: that a “college ready” score on consortium tests means a student is prepared to perform well in […]

Missouri Activists Sue State of Missouri Over Common Core Payments

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Gretchen Logue  and Anne Gassel  of the Missouri Coalition Against Common Core have joined Fred N. Sauer in filing a taxpayer lawsuit against Governor Nixon, Commissioner Nicastro, and other state officials.  The lawsuit challenges Missouri’s payment of taxpayer money to the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium, a consortium of states that is implementing tests aligned to […]

Standards Rustling and Rebranding

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We have now seen at least three distinct styles of rebranding of the Common Core State Standards.  There may be other styles as well as variations of one or more of these styles. You will likely recognize at least one, if not all three of these styles.  It is possible your state matches one of […]

Smarter Balanced Contractor Suffers Data Breach

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Education Week reports that the American Institute for Research suffered a data breach earlier this month: After one of the organization’s servers was hacked, the sensitive personal information of as many as 6,500 current and former employees, including Social Security numbers and personal credit card information, was compromised, an AIR spokesman confirmed during an interview […]