Making Common Core Common Knowledge

Common Core Conference in Rapid City, SD August 24, 2013. You can get the registration form here. Speakers: Jane Robbins, J.D. – Jane Robbins is a native of Pendleton, South Carolina, and is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Clemson University. Ms. Robbins is a Senior Fellow at the American Principles Project which was…

Tracking Our Children?

August 7, 2013 So, the data mining on our children, has begun and it has gone retroactive. At the Tea Area School District school enrollment fair, this form was presented to parents. I don’t have the form for the upper grades, but was told by a parent that while enrolling her Junior in High School,…

Where’s the Proof?

The Common Core Standards are not internationally benchmarked and do not make children college and career ready.  If they had proof that they were internationally benchmarked and prepared students for college and career, they would be shouting it from the roof tops. The teaching methods used with the Common Core have never been tried and…