What Is Your Experience With Common Core?
I would like to hear from people who have had an experience with any aspect of Common Core that illustrates a loss of local control. If you have seen real issues with what the standards, assessments, curriculum, and database tracking are doing to our schools and children, I want to know what’s going on in…
MamaBearSD Op-Ed: Education or Indoctrination
Some of you know that I clean empty rental units, preparing them for the next tenant. Many times I go into units where the former tenant has claimed to clean the unit, but when you look deeper, you find that it is still dirty. For example, this morning I opened the refrigerator and thought that’s…
Thomas Jefferson On Education
Too often we try to argue against Common Core based on results instead of principle. Here are the 2 overriding principles that Common Core violate: parental control, and decentralization of power. Those principles are clearly outlined, in the context of education, by Thomas Jefferson in his letter to Joseph Cabell (Feb. 2, 1816). He says,…
South Dakota Considers Ending Speech Requirement for High School Graduation
Common Core Standards conference call May 15th at noon
Common Core Standards conference call May 15th at noon May 10, 2013 Education Heritage Action will host a conference call at noon on Wednesday, May 15th with Heritage education expert Lindsey Burke to discuss Common Core national standards. Lindsey has been sounding the alarm against Washington’s overreach in our education system and has graciously agreed to join us on the call next…
Sandra Stotsky Discusses Common Core
I am posting this video of Dr. Sandra Stotsky talking about the issues she had with the Common Core English Language Arts Standards. I am asking you to remember, that anyone who was invited to and participated in the Common Core Standards validation panel is a proponent of National Standards. Their underlying motivations may not have…
Indoctrination in Zaner Bloser Curriculum
Indoctrination in First Grade Reading and Writing Curriculum written specifically to the Common Core Standards. – Not only does this video show the social justice part of the Common Core Curriculum – the message is that Mom and Dad may not want what is for the “common good” and we may have to manipulate them,…
Stolen Education, Stolen Children, Stolen Future
When the news got out that New York parents were coaching their children to not take the standardized tests, I was so uncomfortable. I wasn’t sure if when I was a student, I would have had the courage to put down the pencil and stick to it with a teacher standing there telling me to pick…
Congressman Rob Bishop Advises Utah Senate: Common Core is a Hook
Congressman Rob Bishop, Utah, is the second signature on Congressman Blaine Luetkemeyer’s letter to United States Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, raising concerns about Common Core. From Congressman Rob Bishop in his February, 2013 address to the Utah Senate. At min. 12:17, he addresses questions from the Utah legislature concerning Common Core. He advises the Utah Senate that they…
South Dakotans Against Common Core 