If Indiana can fight this beast, so can the other states.
Part of Obama's plan to "fundamentally transform America" by dumbing down our kids.
I’ve never seen anything in the Constitution that entitles the feral government to define lesson plans for the nation’s school children.
Wahoo for these ladies! I attended a meeting about Common Core a couple of days ago. It is almost unbelievable what our government is doing to us these days.
Get back to the more realistic type problems that show "real-life" situations so kids can understand what the question really is (the old tried and true story problem).
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Parents in states that have adopted the Common Core curriculum should start a class action lawsuit against the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation for creating a database in which their children’s information resides, from data collected by local schools. That’s a rather deep pocket for trial lawyers to attack.
I know my daughter in Oregon is upset that they wont be teaching cursive writing. At least she managed to move her son from a school that spoke only Spanish for half the day.
Math is math, and as a teacher, I have no problems with standards or fixing what’s currently broken — miles-wide, inch-deep instruction, too much repetition — but they expect every teacher to reinvent the wheel to teach it the new way without much in the way of example asto what is expected.
On April 20, Representative Blaine Luetkemeyer (R., Mo.) sent a letter co-signed by 33 other congressmen to Education Secretary Arne Duncan, asking for a detailed accounting of changes in student-privacy policies associated with the new national database the Obama administration is building as part of its Common Core support. The letter pointed out that the Education Department had already made regulatory changes without consulting Congress that appear to circumvent the 1974 law that limits the disclosure to third parties of any data collected on students.
The Common Core places inappropriate limitations on the influence of states and localities, while burdening them with additional, unfunded expenses, Representative Luetkemeyer [said] via e-mail.
Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa is taking the lead nationally in shining light on the Obama administrations key role in promoting Common Core. On April 16, Grassley was joined by seven other GOP senators (including major presidential contenders Ted Cruz and Rand Paul), who signed a letter calling on their colleagues to stop funding the implementation of Common Core, which, they point out, appears to violate federal laws that explicitly forbid the Education Department to influence curriculum or assemble a national database.
But moms have a more elemental objection: The whole operation is a federal power grab over their childrens education. Once a state adopts Common Core, its curriculum goals and assessments are effectively nationalized. And the national standards are effectively privatized, because they are written, owned, and copyrighted by two private trade organizations.
Legislators are incredulous when they learn the standards and assessments are written by two private trade organizations the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers. This creates concern why public education is now controlled by two private organizations, says Gretchen Logue, a Missouri education activist and one of the co-founders of Truth in American Education, a network of activists and organizations opposing Common Core. They also dont like that the standards and assessments are copyrighted and cannot be changed or modified by the states.
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I’ll point out that Governor Palin knew to reject what the GOPe/RINOs’ Ivy League and law school-educated, dream candidate for 2012 (Mitch Daniels) and the vast majority of governors didn’t know enough to reject: the Common Core standards and Obama’s “Race to the Top” federal dollars.
Of course, the GOPe/RINOs’ dream candidates for 2016, such as Jeb Bush and Chris Christie, were big proponents of it as well.