The American Principles Project (APP), the Heartland Institute and Pioneer Institute, co-hosted a one-day conference at Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana, Monday, September 9, 2013 to discuss the destructive implications of the Common Core Standards and the future of the education of America’s youth. More than 200 people were in attendance at the sold […]
Common Core Conference at the University of Notre Dame
From FightCommonCore.com, this will be a great conference to be held next month at Notre Dame University in Indiana. The Changing Role of Education in America: Consequences of the Common Core University of Notre DameSeptember 9, 2013 You can register online here. Please join us for a one-day conference at the Notre Dame Conference Center […]
Common Core Common Sense: Why It’s Illiberal and Unconstitutional
By Dr. Daniel B. Coupland On May 29th, 2009, Arne Duncan, the new Secretary of Education for the Obama Administration, gave a speech at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. In the speech, he said, We want to raise the bar dramatically in terms of high standards. What we have had as a country, […]
Why Conservatives Object to the Common Core
Kathleen Porter-Magee & Sol Stern ask in the subheading of their National Review article defending the Common Core State Standards ask “why are prominent conservatives criticizing a set of rigorous educational standards?” There are others who have provided direct rebuttals. I want to answer their primary question. While I’m not a “prominent conservative,” I am […]
Georgia State Senator Ligon Discusses Removal of Common Core from Georgia
ATLANTA (February 28, 2013) – Sen. William Ligon (R-Brunswick) held a press conference today to discuss Senate Bill 167. Sen. Ligon sponsored this legislation to withdraw Georgia from its participation in the Common Core State Standards Initiative and the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC). The Common Core Georgia Performance Standards […]
The Case of Kentucky
Matthew Ladner brings up Kentucky as an example that the Common Core State Standards are working. Kentucky was one of the first states to implement them. He said that the Kentucky exams were far more lax than that of the NAEP assessments, and after the Common Core they were brought closer into line saying that […]
Common Core Reversing Massachusetts’ Educational Achievements
I wanted to draw your attention to an op/ed written by James Stergios, Charles Chieppo and Jamie Gass of the Pioneer Institute entitled “The Massachusetts Exception” published at The City Journal. An excerpt: It’s common knowledge that in 1983, a federal report called A Nation at Risk indicted the “rising tide of mediocrity” in American […]
The Common Core Math Standards–A Step Backward
Education Next interviewed Ze’ev Wurman and W. Stephen Wilson about the Common Core Math Standards which 40 states have signed on to. They ask are they a step forward or backward? They are pretty clear that it is a step backward. Some money quotes… Wurman in answering whether the CCSS for Math is higher than […]
Should California Have Second Thoughts on the Common Core?
Yes. Arguing that case in an online forum are Eric Premack, the founder and director of Charter Schools Development Center in Sacramento and Ze’ev Wurman, a software engineer who served on the state commission that reviewed the Common Core standards in 2010. Premack writes: Nearly 15 years after adopting state academic content standards, aligned curriculum, […]
Math? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Math!
The Boston Herald, not a conservative or limited government bastion by any stretch of the imagination, railed against the common core state standards for science. These are the same standards that Jason Glass and the Iowa Department of Education want to align the Iowa Core Curriculum to. The Herald’s Editorial Board writes: An influential body […]