From Stop Common Core in Illinois NOTE: This program is not specific to Common Core but a part of the new trend to collect data on our kids.  This is yet another example of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation using funding to introduce controversial programs into our schools. FERPA student privacy laws are quietly…

Hear James Milgram, Sandra Stotsky and Charlotte Iserbyt’s urgent warnings about today’s education system.Stanford University emeritus professor of mathematics and NASA Consultant, James Milgram, the only academic mathematician on Common Core’s Validation Committee, refused to sign off on the final draft of the national standards. He describes the standards as having “extremely serious failings,” reflecting…

One of the many “good” things we have been told about the Common Core Standards is that they are more rigorous. The question has been asked, “What is meant by more rigorous?”First let’s define rigorous. According the dictionary.com:rig·or·ous  [rig-er-uhs]  adjective1. characterized by rigor; rigidly severe or harsh, as people, rules, or discipline: rigorous laws.2. severely…

From Castlerock, Colorado The Douglas County School Board unanimously adopted a resolution July 16 opposing the Common Core Standards in favor of the district’s own.The Douglas County School District’s standards are “more rigorous, more demanding, more thorough, and reflect higher expectations and aspirations for our students than any national standard now in existence, including the…

You can read Lt Gov. Forest’s letter to North Carolina State Education Officials here. From NC Lt. Gov. Dan Forest’s Facebook Page:Common Core NC Update:For those of you following my efforts to seek answers to #CommonCore in North Carolina, please be aware that my 67-question letter to the Department of Public Instruction (DPI) will be…

From Steve Sibson, January 2012: I attended Governor Daugaard’s budget presentation this morning in Mitchell. His goal was to promote two initiatives. One was a Workforce Initiative and the other was in education, as the Secretary of Education was present. He actually admitted that the two were to be connected at the hip. He started out…

Great piece by American Principles Project’s Jane Robbins.  David Coleman, the non-English teacher who wrote the Common Core national English language arts (ELA) standards, is conducting a charm offensive to persuade Christians to embrace the new national standards. According to Mr. Coleman, students “educated” under Common Core will be better readers and better able to…

We have shared with you the video of Shirley McCune, the Senior Director of McRel, at the 1989 National Governors’ Conference on Education. She shares these three new objectives of education  Total transformation of our society (sound familiar?) Facts and information(knowledge) no longer primary purpose of education The close connection between economic(sustainable) development and human…

From EdWeek: Dear Mr. President,Like thousands of experienced classroom teachers throughout our great country, I am very concerned about how you decided to go the way that you did with your Education policies. I was recently told by a close friend of the yours that “Arne’s Team looked at all of the options” and decided…

New taxes to pay for this national education because history has shown that federal money in public education has raised student achievement? From Heartland: The Obama administration may raise taxes on everyone’s phone lines by about $5 per year to increase K-12 tech subsidies because most schools cannot administer the computerized Common Core tests coming…