What To Do Once Common Core Is Halted (by Sandra Stotsky)
What could states do once implementation of Common Core’s standards is halted? Most states are unlikely to want to return to the standards they once had, mainly because their boards…
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How Massachusetts Promoted Achievement Before Common Core & PARCC
/by Sandra Stotsky…that will hold teachers accountable for student scores on PARCC. But, at the least, they can see the test items that promoted achievement in all student groups before Common Core…
Joy Pullmann on the Fallout from Common Core
/by Editorial Staffhttps://chrt.fm/track/4655F8/api.spreaker.com/download/episode/53285106/tlc_14_mixdown.mp3 Co-host Bob Bowdon talks with Joy Pullmann, executive editor of The Federalist, about the mediocre NAEP and PISA results, after a decade of the Common Core national education standards…
Common Core
/by Micaela Dawson…and public officials across the country about the serious problems posed by Common Core national education standards. Make a tax-deductible gift below to support our campaign to stop Common Core….
Common Core’s Race to the Middle in Colorado
/by Editorial StaffCommon Core’s Race to the Middle in Colorado. Introductory. Introductory remarks by the Honorable Bob Schaffer, Chairman, Colorado State Board of Education/former U.S. Representative. Featuring: The Honorable Robert Scott, former…
Jim Stergios on Fox & Friends: Common Core lessons politicize classrooms
/by Editorial StaffJim Stergios discussed political propaganda in Common Core lessons for 5th grade students on Fox & Friends (Nov. 8, 2013). View his interview with Elizabeth Hasselbeck below. Here’s the original…
Fall River Herald News: Common Core Takes Classics Out of Curriculum
/by Jamie Gass…pen name “Mark Twain” (a riverboat term meaning two fathoms, 12 feet deep, indicating “safe water”), Clemens wrote like the common man, but this common man was also a literary…
Claims and Facts about Common Core
/by Pioneer Institute…they are not. The following Claims and Facts address Common Core myths about the development, intent, content, and implementation of the standards. Download Report: Claims and Facts about Common Core…
Common Core’s Validation: A Weak Foundation for a Crooked House
/by Ze'ev WurmanThe final version of the Common Core standards was released in June 2010. Also released at the same time was a report containing the signatures of 24 members of the…
How to Address Common Core’s Reading Standards: Licensure Tests for K-6 Teachers
/by Sandra Stotsky…state does not already require a reading test adequately addressing all of Common Core’s reading standards. Download Report: How to Address Common Core’s Reading Standards: Licensure Tests for K-6 Teachers…
After the Fall: Catholic Education Beyond the Common Core
/by Anthony EsolenThe workforce-preparation focus of the K-12 English and math standards known as Common Core puts them at odds with Catholic education, and the standards should not be adopted by parochial…
Common Core, School Choice and Rethinking Standards-Based Reform
/by Ted RebarberWhile U.S. academic performance has declined since the broad implementation of Common Core, school choice programs are increasingly hamstrung by regulations that require private schools to adopt a single curriculum…
The Common Core Debacle: Results from 2019 NAEP and Other Sources
/by Ted Rebarber…historic declines since most states implemented national Common Core English and math curriculum standards six years ago. Download Report: The Common Core Debacle: Results from 2019 NAEP and Other Sources…
What Would the Founders Say About Common Core?
/by Editorial Staff…and one right-wing website called him Beck’s favorite historian. However, a recent essay on James Madison and the Common Core by Jim Stergios, executive director of the conservative, free market,…
Mediocrity 2.0: Massachusetts Rebrands Common Core ELA and Math
/by Mark Bauerlein…standards, which were based on Common Core, led to declining scores on national tests in both English and math. Download Report: Mediocrity 2.0: Massachusetts Rebrands Common Core ELA and Math…
Summary: National Cost of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards
/by Pioneer InstituteAll but five (5) states have committed to adopting the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in English language arts and mathematics and are participating in one of the federally-sponsored consortia…
Federal Overreach and Common Core
/by Williamson EversThis report provides the historical background and interpretive analysis needed to understand controversies surrounding Common Core and its associated tests. Download Report: Federal Overreach and Common Core…
Study Finds Common Core Math Standards Will Reduce Enrollment in High-Level High School Math Courses, Dumb Down College Stem Curriculum
/by Richard PhelpsHowever, the greatest harm to higher education may accrue from the alignment of the SAT to Common Core’s high school standards, converting the SAT from an adaptable test predictive of…
Lowering the Bar: How Common Core Math Fails to Prepare High School Students for STEM
/by James MilgramThis paper began as a response to the attempt by Professor Jason Zimba, a lead writer of Common Core’s mathematics standards, to revise in 2013 what he said about the…
How Common Core’s ELA Standards Place College Readiness at Risk
/by Sandra StotskyFar from contradicting Common Core, these actions follow its injunction that, apart from “certain critical content for all students, including: classic myths and stories from around the world, America’s Founding…
National Cost of Aligning States and Localities to the Common Core Standards
/by Ted RebarberIt is the purpose of this study to stimulate an informed policy dialogue about the likely costs of implementing the Common Core standards. The nationwide calculations are intended to encourage…
Common Core Facts
/by Sandra StotskyWho developed Common Core’s standards? Three private organizations in Washington DC: the National Governors Association (NGA), the Council for Chief State School Officers (CCSSO), and Achieve, Inc.—all funded for this…
California Wants A Tax Hike to Pay For Common Core
/by Editorial Staffhttp://www.educationnews.org/education-policy-and-politics/california-wants-a-tax-hike-to-pay-for-common-core/ Lance Izumi, writing in Fox and Hounds, is highly skeptical of new tax hike plans from Governor Jerry Brown and the California Federation of Teachers which they say are…
Controlling Education from the Top: Why Common Core Is Bad for America
/by Editorial Staff…has been gravely impaired as a result of the Common Core. Common Core suffers from a number of systemic defects. We have already seen that the claims of state involvement…
The Education Writers Association casts its narrowing gaze on Boston, May 1-3
/by Richard Phelps…writing platforms for 102 avowed Common Core advocates, 7 avowed Common Core opponents, 12 who are mostly in favor, and one who is mostly opposed.[i] Randomly select an EWA Common…
Indiana’s airball on national education standards
/by Jim Stergios……Indiana did have standards that were higher, that, in fact, there are a lot of problems with the Common Core standards…The validation committee for the Common Core for math and…
Fordham report predictable, conflicted
/by Editorial Staff…the other federally-subsidized Common Core-aligned testing program, the Smarter-Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC),[viii] and Student Achievement Partners, the organization that claims to have inspired the Common Core standards[ix] Fordham acknowledges the…
The Core Conundrum
/by Editorial Staffhttp://chronicle.com/blogs/innovations/the-core-cunundrum/31719 Yesterday (February 23) Secretary of Education Arne Duncan called criticisms of the Common Core State Standards, “a conspiracy theory in search of a conspiracy.” He is referring to the…
On Marc Tucker’s Credibility (by Sandra Stotsky)
/by Sandra Stotsky…support the Common Core State Standards. In short, an overwhelming majority of mathematicians support the Common Core State Standards and disagree with Milgram. 4. Massachusetts was for a long time…
What Wakefield, NH’s School Board Is Doing to Ensure a First-Rate Education for All Its Students
/by Sandra Stotsky…the guise of “literacy” standards), Common Core advocates have come up with a new ploy to ward off efforts to repeal Common Core and put first-rate standards in their place….