national curriculum

Common 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 Texas Commissioner of Education Dr. Bill Evers, Research Fellow, Stanford University’s Hoover...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/04/26/palin_was_a_prophet_about_obamas_education_takeover_113966.html Sarah Palin was the first to recognize the problem: By participating in President Obama’s signature education initiative, the Common Core Standards, Alaska would lose control over its own curriculum. On May 31, 2009, then-Gov. Palin announced Alaska would adopt a “watch...

http://blog.heritage.org/2012/04/23/why-states-should-hop-off-the-national-standards-bandwagon/ 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...

Despite three federal laws that prohibiting the federal government from directing, supervising or controlling K-12 curricula, the U.S. Department of Education has placed the nation on the road to a national curriculum.

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 nurses.  That is not the definition of urgency. The big new Boston...

http://www.ediswatching.org/2012/02/february-a-month-to-remember-or-forget-in-national-k-12-standards-debate/ Last spring I told you about a growing movement to oppose the Common Core standards and accompanying assessments, as well as the momentum toward a national curriculum. Well, a recent spate of evidence suggests that the Common Core cause has fallen...