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March 5, 2020
Florida again leads the way by supporting a wide range of private and public school choices for families, a blossoming of freedom that DeSantis helped bolster as a top priority upon taking office in 2019.
May 4, 2020
A new study has found the adoption of the Common Core State Standards has led to a 'historic' drop in student achievement scores.
May 1, 2020
Idaho lawmakers are considering replacing the Common Core standards with a more rigorous and flexible plan
May 29, 2020
Post-Common Core Scores Declining Where Pre-Common Core Scores Were Increasing
May 28, 2020
Post-Common Core Scores Declining Where Pre-Common Core Scores Were Increasing
May 27, 2020
Post-Common Core Scores Declining At Same Rate Pre-Common Core Scores Were Increasing
May 26, 2020
Post-Common Core Scores Declining At Same Rate Pre-Common Core Scores Were Increasing
May 8, 2020
Scores Falling Sharpest For Black And Hispanic Students
January 14, 2020
What, then, can college readiness test scores in mathematics and reading tell us?
January 21, 2018
The 2017 update of Massachusetts’ English and math K-12 academic standards represents further deterioration in English, while the math standards are essentially unchanged from the 2010 version.
December 16, 2017
The Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are still in widespread use across the nation despite continuing public resistance, an extensively reprinted Associate Press article reports.
November 10, 2016
Diane Ravitch, historian of education at New York University and outspoken critic of education choice, wrote in a New York Times op-ed, “The Common Core Costs Billions and Hurts Students.”
May 17, 2017
In the land of the free, surely choice eventually will triumph over the dreary imposed sameness of a Common Core.
March 29, 2017
The Michigan House and Senate are considering companion bills that would repeal the state’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and replace them with the highly-regarded standards Massachusetts used during the 2008-09 school year.
March 15, 2017
The Michigan House and Senate are considering companion bills that would repeal the state’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and replace them with the highly-regarded standards Massachusetts used during the 2008-09 school year.
February 13, 2017
Arizona parents and reform groups remain dissatisfied after the Arizona State Board of Education (ASBE) voted to approve minor changes to the state’s Common Core standards, rather than the sweeping reforms requested by the advocates for reform.
October 19, 2016
Most of the major textbooks used in U.S. schools do not meet expectations for alignment with the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a study has found.
November 14, 2016
The New York State Education Department (NYSED) released a draft of its proposed changes for the state’s Common Core State Standards and asked the public to review and comment on the plan.
February 9, 2018
Massachusetts student achievement continues to decline in the wake of the state’s adoption of the Common Core State Standards, a new study has found.
October 12, 2016
Public support for school reform remains high and support for the Common Core State Standards continues to drop, a new public opinion poll shows.
July 19, 2016
Two bills that would repeal and replace Common Core State Standards in Michigan are progressing through the two chambers of the state’s legislature. Senate Bill 826, sponsored by state Sen.
March 24, 2017
A bill to prevent the state government from requiring schools to use the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) passed the New Hampshire Senate.
July 6, 2016
According to findings published by the American College Testing Inc.’s (ACT) National Curriculum Survey, Common Core State Standards (CCSS) fail to prepare students for college.
June 13, 2016
Utah Governor Gary Herbert (R) sent a letter to the State Board of Education asking for an end to the state’s use of the Common Core (CC) academic standards.
July 18, 2016
In a flash, the Classic Learning Test (CLT) has gained a foothold in the field of college-entrance testing dominated for generations by the SAT and ACT.
June 7, 2016
The New Jersey Board of Education has adopted a revised version of Common Core involving small changes to the original standards Gov. Chris Christie (R) said last year were “simply not working.
October 23, 2016
The authors explain "why the secularized Common Core national standards, which were devised primarily for public schools, are incompatible with and unsuited for a traditional Catholic education."
February 19, 2015
Review of The Story-Killers:A Common-Sense Case Against the Common Core, by Terrence O. Moore, Amazon Digital Services, Inc., 292 pages, $6.
October 12, 2016
Study Finds Common Core Incompatible With Catholic Education
September 12, 2016
Over $4.6 Billion Spent By Public, Private Sources On Implementation
August 6, 2014
An article by Elizabeth Green (CEO of a nonprofit education news organization called Chalkbeat) that recently appeared in the New York Times magazine, attempts to explain why most Americans are bad at math.
February 25, 2016
National Common Core-aligned standardized tests for elementary and secondary schools are in the midst of a death spiral, despite the $360 million the Obama administration spent on the creation of the two consortia, the Partnership for Assessment of
May 22, 2015
Think about the major policy undertakings of the Obama administration over the past six and a half years. It began with a “stimulus” that wasted trillions in the quest of generating jobs, but did little to nothing in achieving that goal.
November 28, 2016
The Common Core State Standards are not compatible with a Catholic education because their workforce development emphasis “dramatically diminishes children’s intellectual and spiritual horizons,” a new study reports.
April 21, 2017
Review of The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids, by Joy Pullmann (Encounter Books, March 14, 2017), 280 pp.; $24.72 on Amazon.com: ISBN-10: 1594038813, ISBN-13: 978-1594038815
April 25, 2013
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Is Common Core Becoming Less Common?
December 28, 2013
Review of The Story Killers: A Common Sense Case Against the Common Core, by Terrence Moore
July 31, 2014
Never let it be said that Common Core (CC) entirely lacks educational value.
July 18, 2016
The grassroots organization End Common Core Massachusetts gathered more than 100,000 signatures to get their question certified for the November 2016 ballot.
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