When Political Ideology Takes Over Advanced Placement Courses
Under the leadership of Common Core czar David Coleman, the College Board has been creating or rewriting Advanced Placement (AP) courses to reflect a leftist worldview.
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Common Core for Civics — But Worse
Just when we thought the Critical Race Theory movement might have been stalled, there is a new bill in Congress that could institutionalize CRT into civics education.
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Books/USB by Orlean Koehle
A Stealth Plan to Radicalize Students: Common Core CIVICS
Stanley Kurtz, senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, describes it as “the greatest education battle of our lifetimes.” This is no exaggeration as more details are coming out about proposed federal legislation that seeks to bring “Action Civics” to a school near you.
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Political Orthodoxy and Re-education of Third Graders
Editor’s Note: Public schools have been moving toward ultra-woke curricula for the past several years, but the floodgates are about to open. As Stanley Kurtz
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Consequences of Common Core
A national one size fits all approach to American education by its very nature lowers academic achievement across the board, neglects the basics, and is ripe for political indoctrination and social manipulation. The downward achievement trend for America and Alabama since Common Core implementation is undeniable.
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PARENTS as TEACHERS: A REVIVAL IN EDUCATION
July 2020 A silver lining to COVID-19? The past four months of COVID-19 stay-at-home restrictions have seen an upheaval in education that is unprecedented in
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Great Ideas for When Your Children are Stuck at Home
Editor’s Note: ar With more and more schools’ being closed for at least the next two weeks, many parents are concerned about what to do
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Harmony Schools Cause Discord
The Harmony Public Schools are taxpayer-funded charter schools in Texas. In 2011, a Texas legislator filed a bill that would allow charter operators to use the Permanent School Fund to guarantee school construction bonds.
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Florida Puts Education Back Into Public Education
Florida Education Commissioner Richard Corcoran has released a Back-to-School Reading List for Grades K – 12.
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Why the Sudden Obsession with Transgenderism?
The sudden obsession we are seeing with gender dysphoria or transgenderism might not be so sudden after all. Emmett McGroarty and Jane Robbins explain the history and dangers of the Left’s use of the sexualization of children, most recently transgenderism, to attack the foundations of the family. — Pat Daugherty Ed.D.
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Algorithms Replace Teaching
Over the last several years, testing has been a major point of contention between parents and the education establishment (both federal and state). Especially as states have responded to federal mandates by administering unvalidated assessments aligned to the Common Core national standards, parents across the country have begun, with varying degrees of success, to opt their children out of those assessments. The Every Student Succeeds Act perpetuates the federal testing mandates, so the opt-out movement will continue.
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Budget Subtraction
March 4, 2018 Congress will pass a budget soon and one of the areas of focus is education. We have seen such a large government
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Big Government and Elites Love Datapalooza
Students can no longer attend public schools and expect to get a broad based academic education. Instead they are pawns of Big Government and Big Business.
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Using Schools To Retrain Kids’ Emotions — What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The government wants to dictate and monitor the feelings of schoolchildren, regardless of the violations of conscience and privacy involved.
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Invasive Surveys
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- What Parents Don’t Like About Common Core, Jan. 15
- Common Core’s Growing Unpopularity, Aug. 14
- Growing Rejection of Common Core, June 14
- http://www.eagleforum.org/publications/psr/mar14.html, Mar. 14
- Backlash Against Common Core, July 13
- New Obama Initiatives to Watch Out For, Jan. 13
- What’s Happened to Public School Curriculum?, Nov. 10
LINKS
- Common Core coalition letter, 3-24-15
- Teachers complain Common Core-linked lessons little more than scripts to read, 12-05-13
ALERTS
- Common Core: Victory in Oklahoma! 7-15-14
- OKLAHOMA: Ending Common Core – Please take action! 5-27-14
- GEORGIA: URGENT Calls needed – YES to House Ed on SB 167 3-04-14
- KANSAS: Support HB 2621 in the House Education Committee 3-03-14
- WYOMING: URGENT: Common Core Calls Needed Today! 2-17-14
- KANSAS: URGENT: Tell House Ed Committee to vote YES on HB 2621 2-15-14
- MISSISSIPPI: Help us defeat the Common Core!, 1-30-14
- WISCONSIN: Tell Gov. Walker to Stand AGAINST Common Core!, 1-21-14
- KANSAS: Please Exit the Common Core Now!, 1-13-14
- Join Florida Parents to Protest Common Core in Orlando!, 6-26-14
- Continue Fighting CCS in Kansas!, 6-10-13
- MICHIGAN URGENT: Call Gov. Snyder – CCS Defunding Passes Both Houses!, 6-04-13
- Urge MI Senators to Defund Common Core!, 5-30-13
- Kansas: Pressure Key Leaders to Defund Common Core, 5-30-13
- Urgent: Defund Common Core in Michigan!, 5-28-13
- KANSAS: Last Chance to Defund Common Core!, 5-28-13
- KANSAS: Common Core will STAND ALONE! Please continue calls and emails, 5-22-13
- Urgent Action: Stop Common Core in Kansas NOW!, 5-20-13
On May 11, 2013, the Governor signed the Indiana Common Core bill. This bill requires the State Board to take no further actions to implement any common core standards and calls for the state board, the legislative study committee, and the office of management and budget to conduct “comprehensive evaluations” of the common core standards. In addition, the state board of education is to hold at least three public meetings.
