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

IN Common Core Investigation Resolution Passes Committee

February 22, 2012 By James Bell

Scott Schneider has been fighting for democratic dialogue

Indiana State Senator Scott Schneider, an education reformer in Indiana, has been a leader in fighting to ensure that the Indiana legislature gets input into the decision of whether to adopt the Common Core Standards.

He called a hearing to investigate the Common Core Standards.  Experts testified at the overwhelming cost, content, and legal issues associated with the Common Core.

Senator Schneider, believing the issue deserved legislative input, drafted a resolution that calls for the investigation of the Common Core by a study committee:

“Indiana has long been acknowledged nationally for having high education standards and many are concerned that moving to Common Core State Standards would be a significant step away from the expectations we currently have in math and English,” Schneider said. “It’s my hope the study committee will thoroughly examine national standards compared to locally developed state standards to ensure we are not going backwards.”

Senate Resolution 38, which passed out of committee by a vote of 10-0, calls on the Legislative Council to establish an interim study committee to examine:
•    Implementation of the recently adopted Common Core State Standards in Indiana
•    Appropriateness of adopting future Common Core State Standards for Hoosier students
•    Whether or not the Common Core State Standards are at least as rigorous as Indiana’s nationally recognized standards
•    If there is any impact from national standards to locally developed standards

“Many national subject matter experts in math and English agree Indiana’s current standards, established as a result of input from parents, teachers and education leaders in their respected fields of expertise, are higher than the Common Core State Standards’.  But with very little public input or knowledge our education leaders voted to lower the bar by switching to the Common Core. I find this unacceptable and believe Hoosiers expect more of our education system.”

The resolution, having sailed unanimously through the committee, now passes to the full Indiana Senate for consideration.

Senator Schneider deserves to be congratulated for being an effective voice demanding that the Common Core Standards should be subjected to a full-fledged evidence-based democratic debate.  This sort of debate will shine the light of truth on what has been thus far a backroom, prohibitively expensive, undemocratic, special interest-driven, mediocrity-laden rush to nationalize education policy.

Filed Under: Uncategorized

  • 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

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 © 2021 Truth in American Education · Developed & Hosted by 4:15 Communications, LLC.