Common Core (CC) is the issue that is bringing out hundreds of citizens who never before attended political meetings. Common Core is the attempt of Barack Obama’s Department of Education to force all states and schools to adopt national education standards for each grade level that will dictate what all kids learn and don’t learn.
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The new education standards called Common Core won’t make U.S. kids any smarter. The overall Common Core strategy is to raise middle-scoring students a point or two but do nothing to motivate or help the smarter kids or the dumber kids. CC’s goal is to achieve a result like Lake Wobegon, the fictional Minnesota town where “all kids are above average.”
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This coming weekend in Orlando, the Center for College and Career Readiness will be hosting a two-day conference National Common Core Training conference for educators, school board members, and administrators “to provide high quality, in-depth, professional development opportunities which focus on demands of preparing students to be college and career ready. The conference will address how schools and districts can successfully transition to the Common Core Standards…”
Continue reading →Under the media’s radar, Obama has been aggressively promoting one of his fiscally extravagant projects announced in his 2013 State of the Union Address: “preschool available to every single child in America.” The plan for the federal government to take over the care of preschool children, a longtime goal of the feminists that used to be called universal child care, is now (probably to sound academic) called Pre-K.
Continue reading →Unfortunately, our fight to stop the implementation of the Common Core Standards (CCS) in Kansas failed June 1st.
Continue reading →Great news! The Michigan State Legislature has voted to defund Common Core. Now the bill is moving to the Governor’s desk for his signature. Please call and e-mail the Governor imploring him to sign the Department of Education budget that contains language to defund the implementation of the Common Core Standards.
Continue reading →We are hearing that many of the State Senators are headed to a policy conference sponsored by the Detroit Chamber of Commerce (supporters of the CCSI) on Mackinac Island. Jeb Bush is to give a keynote address. Unfortunately, he is on the wrong side of this issue – and seriously threatens the votes we have to pass this bill.
Continue reading →We have heard good reports about the efforts at the Capitol yesterday, and we know that the legislators are hearing you. However, we need to turn up the heat on a few key leaders urging them to find a way to stop Common Core in Kansas this legislative session.
Continue reading →Time is of the essence right now in Michigan. The Michigan State Legislature is very close to defunding the Common Core Standards, but we need your help!
Continue reading →We are hearing that the provision to defund Common Core will not be in the final budget but instead will be voted on as a stand-alone bill. Please call your representatives and simply ask them to defund Common Core.
Continue reading →May 20, 2013 Time is of the essence right now in Kansas. We have the opportunity to stop the implementation of the Common Core Standards
Continue reading →The national news media haven’t discovered it, but the issue that is bringing out hundreds of citizens who never before attended political meetings is Common Core (CC). More precisely, it is the attempt of Barack Obama’s Department of Education to force all states and schools to adopt specified national education standards for each grade level that will dictate what all kids learn and don’t learn.
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Our representatives in Madison need to hear your concerns about nationalizing education standards in the United States by states adopting the “Common Core” standards. We do not want our children to be “common.”
Continue reading →It should have been a loud wakeup call in December when North Korea successfully launched a three-stage rocket delivering a payload in orbit around the globe. This event established North Korea’s credentials as having intercontinental ballistic missile technology. On December 23, North Korean officials announced that an analysis of the debris from the rocket shows it has the ability to reach the U.S. mainland.
Continue reading →When we list the areas that Barack Obama wants to “fundamentally transform” as he promised before his 2008 election, let’s not overlook his plans for education. They are as fundamentally transformational, costly and dictatorial as ObamaCare.
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The most widely used history textbook in U.S. public schools is A People’s History of the United States by the late Howard Zinn.
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The No Child Left Behind Act, which allowed states to set their own public school standards for “proficiency,” is opposed and considered a failure by all factions in the education world.
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