Five of the twenty-nine people on the Common Core Validation Committee refused to sign off on the Common Core Standards. Dr. Sandra Stotsky, one of the nation’s leading English Language Arts content experts was one of those five. On October 16, 2013, Dr. Stotsky testified at a legislative hearing in Fon du Lac, Wisconsin against…
Some of the highlights from Dr. Duke Pesta’s, October 16, 2013, testimony in Wisconsin. What if, instead of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, it were an extreme right wing foundation, that gave $225 billion, to unaccountable lobby groups, to create these standards? What if it were a conservative president, who created a program, whereby states…
“The worst thing about Common Core itself is that it’s low academic quality,” Common Core critic Joy Pullman told EAGnews. “It’s not rigorous, it’s not internationally benchmarked, it’s not competitive, it’s not high-quality…” “There’s a lot of really frightening data tracking and monitoring initiatives being required of states in conjunction with Common Core. The tests…
South Dakotans Against Common Core 