Eagle Forum Celebrates a Week of Progress on Campaign Promises
April 1, 2017 Dear Friends: This week held multiple victories for conservatives as Congress used the Congressional Review Act to reject harmful Obama Administration regulations.
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Betsy DeVos Nomination
A Senate panel is scheduled to vote Monday or Tuesday on President Trump’s nominee for education secretary, Betsy DeVos. Dr. Karen Effrem, Eagle Forum’s Education Issues Chair, encourages continued opposition to DeVos’ nomination.
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Time to End Common Core
Some states, like New Hampshire and Georgia, that had accountability directly to parents scored A+ grades on School Choice Freedom Grading Scale, while other states, like Indiana and Louisiana, that imposed the state standardized tests on private schools received failing grades.
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Exposing the Common Core Fraud
If you want to understand the catastrophe of education during the Obama administration, a new book by Dr. Peter Wood, president of the National Association of Scholars, is a must-read. His book is entitled Drilling through the Core: Why Common Core Is Bad for American Education.
Continue reading →How Common Core Ended the Bush Dynasty
As Republicans try to make sense of Donald Trump’s huge victory in the South Carolina primary, the big news is the shellacking of Jeb Bush in a state that voted four times for a George Bush for president.
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Time to Leave ‘No Child’ Behind
After seven years of rule by decree by President Obama’s Chicago crony Arne Duncan, why are Republicans reauthorizing the federal government’s authority over the nation’s public schools?
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Undercover Video Exposes Common Core
A new set of undercover videos has been released by Project Veritas, the organization started by young journalist James O’Keefe who exposed ACORN in 2009 and NPR in 2011, resulting in the resignation of top officials at both organizations.
Continue reading →Arne Has Left the Building
On the last day of 2015 the longest serving member of President Obama’s Cabinet, Arne Duncan, quietly stepped down from his official position as what the Washington Post called “the most powerful education secretary in U.S. history.”
Continue reading →NEA’s Plan to Indoctrinate Schoolchildren
If you want to stay on top of what’s going on in schools, watch the policies adopted by the National Education Association (NEA) which attracts nearly 10,000 delegates to its annual convention over the Fourth of July weekend. The NEA’s 3 million members include most of the nation’s public school teachers, who fund its half-billion dollar budget with their mandatory union dues.
Continue reading →Don’t Give Obama More Power Over Schools
After spending most of the summer giving President Obama new authority (called fast track) to negotiate trade deals with low-wage countries in Asia, Congressional Republicans are now poised to give Obama new authority over education in America’s public schools. This is a big disappointment for those of us who worked hard to elect a Republican Congress last November. We expected the new Congress to take power back from the president, not give him more.
Continue reading →Don’t Give Obama More Power Over Schools
After spending most of June giving President Obama new authority to negotiate trade deals with low-wage countries in Asia, Congressional Republicans are now poised to spend July giving Obama new authority over education in America’s public schools. This is a big disappointment for those of us who worked hard to elect a Republican Congress last November. We expected the new Congress to take power back from the president, not give him more.
Continue reading →Crimes Against Your Children
Parents are up in arms against the new attempt to federalize what schools teach called Common Core, but the even more basic “crimes of the educators” are described in the new book by Samuel Blumenfeld under that title. If you want your children to be smart and successful, rather than join the millions who graduate from high school unable to read their own diploma, or go into debt taking remedial courses in college, you need Blumenfeld’s book.
Continue reading →What’s Going On In College Campuses?
Who would have thought, only a few years ago, that our basic First Amendment right of free speech would be under attack on college campuses (of all places!)? But those are now ordinary campus events.
Continue reading →What Parents Don’t Like About Common Core
Common Core is replacing the teaching of traditional American history with a new left-leaning curriculum. Those who say that Common Core doesn’t prescribe curriculum but only spells out standards are playing with words. According to scholar Stanley Kurtz, the traditional emphasis on America’s founders and the principles of constitutional government are being pitched and replaced with what fits the leftwing narrative of emphasis on race, gender, class, and ethnicity.
Continue reading →New Math on College Campuses
The New York Times published a provocative news story called “The New Math on Campus.” No, it’s not about the failure of Common Core to teach arithmetic; it’s about the changing ratio of males to females on most college campuses.
Continue reading →Schools Don’t Teach Kids to Read
A high school English teacher at Rosemount High School in Minnesota, which was called a “top ranked school” by the Minnesota Department of Education, given the “Blue Ribbon School of Excellence Award by the U.S. Department of Education, and named a top school in the nation for 2014 by Newsweek Magazine, just wrote a shocking letter alerting parents and the public that her high school juniors can’t read. Her letter published by the Minnesota Star Tribune on December 4 was eloquent, so I quote it verbatim.
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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.
