From Stop Common Core in North CarolinaCatholic Children in Grave Danger: A Report on Common Core in Catholic Schools Stephanie Block directs our attention to a research report by Betsy Kraus titled “Catholic Children in Grave Danger: A Report on Common Core in Catholic Schools.” Kraus list the “dangers” she sees in Common Core, including the…

From NewsOK: Educator: States Led Into Common Core Decision Time and again state leaders say Common Core is “state led.” The mantra “state led” has been repeated from federal officials, the National Governors Association, Council of Chief State School Officers and other supporters. Fact is, they’ve been sold a bill of goods for bait. The…

South Dakota Citizens for Liberty is hosting a Common Core informational conference –  Making Common Core Common Knowledge.  Who owns your kids, you or the Government? What you don’t know will hurt your kids. Learn why Common Core is the stealth takover of your local schools and what you can do to stop it. Speakers:…

From Forbes:A relatively tiny donation from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has created quite a stir over the past several days. News broke that Clemson U. had late last year obtained a nearly half million dollar grant from the foundation to conduct a pilot study with Galvanic Skin Response (GSR) bracelets, wireless sensors that…

Speaking to the City Club of Chicago, Lewis said, “We’re flying the [Common Core] airplane as we’re building it. So we’ll see. Who knows what that will bring?” She also said Common Core was never “field tested,” which is an indisputable fact that worries many education experts around the nation.Read the full story and watch…

Arne Duncan Tells Newspaper Editors How to Report on Common Core It seems that a big part of Education Secretary Arne Duncan’s job now is giving impassioned defenses of the Common Core State Standards, which he did Tuesday to a convention of American news editors (some of whom may not have even known it needed defending). A…

Shirley McCune, former OBE Senior Director at Mid-Continent Regional Educational Laboratory (MCREL) From the 1989 National Governors’ Conference on 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 capital(labor)  Educator whose job is to work with the social welfare…

Three years after the Department of Education announced a contest called Race-to-the-Top for $4.35 billion in stimulus funds, some parents, teachers, governors, and citizen and public policy groups are coming to an awful realization about the likely outcomes: A national curriculum called Common Core Regionalism, or the replacement of local governments by federally appointed bureaucrats…

The National Center for Teacher Quality is a bogus organization, since it comes to us from a non-scientific point of view and tons of people who know next to nothing about teaching.  When an agenda and a bunch of policy ideas are predetermined, and the studies comes later, you know something’s going on.  But the…

Dr Sandra Stotsky, the only English Language Arts professor on the Common Core Validation Committee, refused to sign off on the standards because of  “poor quality, empty skill sets, the de-emphasis on literature, and low reading levels, such as 8th grade levels for 12th grade students.” She has been relentless in her efforts to expose…