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The Learning Curve: National Education Podcast

…Curve S1E14: Joy Pullmann on the Fallout from Common Core (Air date: December 13, 2019) https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/chtbl.com/track/G45992/ricochet.com/download.mp3/704667/url/mp3.ricochet.com/2019/12/TLC-14_mixdown.mp3 Co-host Bob Bowdon talks with Joy Pullmann, executive editor of The Federalist, about the…

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Huck, Jim and our interest in education

…educated, backwoods kid and Jim, black slave fleeing captivity and their journey together down the Mississippi. Twain used common words to highlight Jim’s humanity and heroism to help Huck unlearn…

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The Other Federal Takeover

…for $4 billion in “stimulus” money. Among the administration-specified things states essentially had to adopt to win? National curriculum standards, better known as the “Common Core,” which we are told…

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Test

Since 2009, Pioneer has led the campaign against Common Core national education standards and federal control of K-12 education policy, publishing a series of reports showing that the state’s adoption…

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Video: Exiting the National Standards Bandwagon

Heritage Foundation Panel – April 17, 2012 “The Obama Administration, intent on furthering federal intervention in education, has spent billions incentivizing states to adopt national standards and tests. Adopting national…

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Education news from other states

…Foundation continue to stretch outward, with their funding going to implement Common Core-related projects. EdWeek notes that a search of the Gates Foundation’s grant database demonstrated a number of districts…

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U.S. history lessons getting short shrift

http://www.lowellsun.com/editorials/ci_20727036/u-s-history-lessons With the state pouring $3.2 billion a year into the Massachusetts public school system, it’s fair to say that present-day students have basic resources to be smarter than any…

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Are teachers changing their unions?

http://boston.com/community/blogs/rock_the_schoolhouse/2012/07/are_teachers_changing_their_un.html The recent deal brokered by Stand for Children with the Massachusetts Teachers Association (and at the end supported by the AFL-CIO and the Massachusetts chapter of the American Federation…

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N.J. rethinking high school tests

http://articles.philly.com/2012-05-01/news/31519840_1_new-tests-graduation-rates-high-school-proficiency-assessment Gov. Christie announced Monday that he wanted to do away with the state’s current high school assessment exams and instead use end-of-course tests. Christie was endorsing recommendations of the…

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Tough Times on virtual learning?

…not nearly as provocative as the url of the article (which may suggest that it was the original title): “Online Schools Score Better on Wall Street Than in Classrooms.” It’s…

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A halfhearted school budget

http://boston.com/community/blogs/rock_the_schoolhouse/2012/02/a_halfhearted_school_budget.html You know you’re in for trouble when a school district with major graduation and dropout rates problems announces a new budget and leads with the hiring of five new…

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Feel that boot on the neck yet?

…of the Common Core State Standards Initiative to produce a common core of voluntary state standards across grades K-12 in English/language arts, math, and eventually science that are: o Aligned…

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If the feds pay, the states will play

…concern about paying for the implementation of the common standards ricocheted around the room yesterday where the school division of the Association of American Publishers was holding its annual fall…