Emmett McGroarty, Author at The National Pulse

Analysis

Obama Administration Reveals GOP Leaders’ Betrayal on Common Core in Ed Bill

Anti-Common Core activists tried for months to warn Congress that the new federal education bill (the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA) was a disaster that would cement, not overturn,…

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Obamacare 2.0? Congress Just Passed a Controversial Bill With Almost No Public Input

The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) passed the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday night despite a promise from Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) that he would not push bills through…

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Republican Leadership Prepares to Ram Massive Education Bill Through Congress

Just a few weeks ago, Speaker Ryan promised not to ram through thousand-page bills without allowing realistic public analysis and input. But with the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), which…

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Common Core Killed These GOP Candidates

I recently gave The Hill some insight into the politics of Common Core: Republican governors struggling in the GOP presidential contest are weighed down by their failure to fully rebuke…

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Are Minorities Hurt the Most by Common Core?

This post was co-authored by Jane Robbins, an attorney and senior fellow at the American Principles Project. Proponents of the Common Core national standards have claimed from the beginning that…

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Dear Speaker Ryan: It’s Time to End ‘No Child Left Behind’

This post was co-authored by Jane Robbins, an attorney and senior fellow at the American Principles Project. To no one’s surprise, political elites have apparently crafted a bill (behind closed…

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Can Rubio Be Trusted on Common Core?

Breitbart’s Dr. Susan Berry has rightly raised the alarm about Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential candidacy. His statements and actions on education invite concern and doubt. Rubio speaks about America having…

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Did Voters Just Kill the Common Core?

Common Core is in a death-spiral. Weekly, it seems, we hear of yet another blow to the system. Test scores are down. States are jumping out of the federally created…

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Admit It: Common Core Is Lowering Students’ Academic Achievement

The country is in the midst of an education crash. The 2015 SAT scores were the lowest in a decade. And the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), which tests…

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Fiorina: Get the Feds Out of Your Child’s Education

Most of the Republican presidential candidates at least pay lip service to the idea of local control over education. Some even call for abolishing the U.S. Department of Education (USED).…

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Is This Photoshopped Pope Picture Offensive?

Today, DC Pizza, a Washington pizza chain, sent around an email with a doctored photo of Pope Francis celebrating the Mass and holding a pizza up in place of the…

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The Push For H-1B Visas And The Common Core Math FAIL

The debate rages about whether the H-1B visa system brings in too many or too few skilled foreign workers. But the discussion overlooks a critical fact: Regardless of the current…

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The New Jeb Bush Won’t Talk About Common Core

As predicted, former Governor Jeb Bush has stumbled badly with the Republican base over his support for the Common Core national standards. Trying to regain his footing, he now decries…

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Kasich Repeats Same Old Common Core Talking Points

At an education summit in New Hampshire on Wednesday, Governor Kasich reaffirmed his decision to stick with the controversial, low-quality Common Core standards. In defense of his decision, he offered…

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Time to End the College Board’s Monopoly

This piece was co-authored with APIA senior fellow Jane Robbins in The Daily Caller: When teachers and scholars began to speak out against its 2014 Advanced Placement U. S. History (APUSH)…

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The Common Core Report Card: Scott Walker Gets a D+

In our Common Core report card, we graded Scott Walker and all of the GOP candidates based on the three following criteria: fighting the Common Core, protecting state and local…

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Candidate

The Common Core Report Card: Jeb Bush Gets an F

In our Common Core report card, we graded Jeb Bush and all of the GOP candidates based on the three following criteria: fighting the Common Core, protecting state and local decision-making…

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Candidate

The Common Core Report Card: Chris Christie Gets a D+

In our Common Core report card, we graded Chris Christie and all of the GOP candidates based on the three following criteria: fighting the Common Core, protecting state and local decision-making…

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Candidate

The Common Core Report Card: John Kasich Gets an F

In our Common Core report card, we graded John Kasich and all of the GOP candidates based on the three following criteria: fighting the Common Core, protecting state and local…

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Candidate

The Common Core Report Card: Marco Rubio Gets a C

In our Common Core report card, we graded Marco Rubio and all of the GOP candidates based on the three following criteria: fighting the Common Core, protecting state and local decision-making…

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