Many call the data collection of common core, the “creepy” part of Common Core. Part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, required all 50 states to build a Statewide Longitudinal Data System(SLDS). States are required to build a P-20 database, pre-school through doctorate. South Dakota’s is called Student Teacher Accountability System (STARS). We have…
So, we’ve been told that we need the Common Core Standards to make children “College and Career Ready.” Hear what a representative of the College Board says about the Common Core Standards slowing down math, omitting calculus and the dumbing down of the AP courses.http://whatiscommoncore.wordpress.com/2013/07/13/video-college-board-accidentally-explains-dumbing-down-ap-to-match-common-core/
Jeffrey Kibler clearly lays out the plan of the UN and others to create a global economy and citizenship by using the “education” system to create cogs in a managed society. History shows that if you want to change a society, you start with the children. Common Core Based On UN Education Program and Agenda…
Thank-you Mitchell Superintendent, Joe Graves, for standing with the families of Mitchell and local control. During the meeting’s public commentary segment, Mitchell resident Steve Sibson expressed concern about the pending statewide adoption of common core curriculum standards. “It’s my belief that common core is not about the quality of education, but the control of our…
From Heritage: When “states signed on to common core standards, they did not realize…that they were transferring control of the school curriculum to the federal government,” said Sandra Stotsky, 21st Century Chair in Teacher Quality at the University of Arkansas’s Department of Education Reform, speaking at The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. Stotsky and four other education…
Dr Sandra Stotsky and Jane Robbins pull the curtain back on who wrote the CCSS. Common Core’s national K-12 standards, in English language arts (ELA) and math, supposedly emerged from a state-led process in which experts, educators, and parents were well represented. But the people who wrote the standards did not represent the most important stakeholders.…
Sandra Stotsky wrote a piece for the National Association of Scholars entitled “Revise or Reject: The Common Core’s Serious Flaws.”Here is an excerpt she outlines some of the flaws.
Thursday, July 11, 2013 6:30 p.m. Pizza Ranch, 2717 West 41st Street, Sioux Falls We urge your attendance at this important meeting. Speakers as of this writing are Mary Scheel-Buysee, South Dakotans Against Common Core, and Representative Jim Bolin. No less a personage than Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, has recently attempted to marginalize those voices organizing against…
I don’t know this teacher, but I would dare to say, he has an ability to reach all of his students in whatever way it takes.NFL Adopts Common Core Playbook-Copying Education Reforms
On the 237th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence from tyranny, I thought it would be appropriate to post this historic document. I chose this particular link because it gives the context in which the Declaration was written. With Common Core, our children may read the Declaration, but will they learn the context in which it…
South Dakotans Against Common Core 