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New Evidence Shows Common Core Has Been a Total Disaster

Jane Robbins — Wed, 28 Nov 2018 20:31:10 +0000

This article was originally posted at Townhall. Most public schools are still afflicted with the Common Core national standards. Paid advocates such as the Thomas B. Fordham Foundation continue to push Common Core despite overwhelming…

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Common Core Has Utterly Failed — But These Supporters Won’t Let It Go

Jane Robbins — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 20:28:08 +0000

This article was originally posted at Townhall. Proponents of the failed and destructive Common Core experiment refuse to let it go. Bill Gates, who funded a large chunk of Common Core…

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Government Preschool Doesn’t Work — And Here’s the Proof

Jane Robbins — Thu, 06 Sep 2018 21:21:30 +0000

This article was originally posted at The American Spectator and co-authored by Dr. Karen Effrem, president of Education Liberty Watch. On the theory that more government programs can solve any public-education…

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Privacy Alert: Will China Soon Be Using Big Data to Influence U.S. Students?

Jane Robbins — Thu, 17 May 2018 20:03:18 +0000

This article was originally posted at The Federalist. The recent Facebook controversy focused Americans’ attention on the dangers of uncontrolled access to and use of individual online data. But as a…

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“Nation’s Report Card” Shows More Failing Grades for Common Core

Jane Robbins — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 17:33:07 +0000

This article was originally posted at The Hill and co-authored by Emmett McGroarty, a senior fellow at the American Principles Project. Since the Common Core national standards were dumped on American…

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Why Is the College Board Politicizing AP History Classes?

Jane Robbins — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 20:42:42 +0000

This article was originally posted at The Federalist and co-authored by Emmett McGroarty, a senior fellow at the American Principles Project. History repeats itself. The College Board, which controls much of the…

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American Test Scores Are Nosediving. Is Common Core to Blame?

Jane Robbins — Tue, 12 Dec 2017 21:04:15 +0000

This article was originally posted at The American Spectator and co-authored by Emmett McGroarty, a senior fellow at the American Principles Project. In 2013 Michael Cohen of Achieve, Inc. (an organization integral…

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A US National ID System Would Be a Recipe for Disaster

Jane Robbins — Thu, 19 Oct 2017 19:00:40 +0000

This article was originally posted at The Federalist. Kyle Sammin cogently argues that the United States should implement a voluntary national identity system in the wake of the Equifax hacking. Debate about this…

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Technology in Schools: A Blessing or a Curse?

Jane Robbins — Wed, 27 Sep 2017 20:46:00 +0000

This article was originally posted at The American Spectator. Of the propaganda that generally swirls around public education, none is more prominent than the claim that technological “personalized learning” can transform…

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Man Up, State Leaders! It’s Time to Declare Independence on Education!

Jane Robbins — Thu, 27 Jul 2017 16:14:03 +0000

With implementation of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) under the U.S. Department of Education (USED), objections are flying to this or that policy (to the extent policy can be…

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New Transgender Letter from Trump Admin Should Have Parents on Alert

Jane Robbins — Mon, 26 Jun 2017 21:23:11 +0000

Over two years ago the Obama Administration’s U.S. Department of Education (USED) issued radical “guidance” instructing public schools to open up all restrooms, locker rooms, and probably sports teams to…

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National School “Choice”: A Solution Worse than the Problem?

Jane Robbins — Fri, 26 May 2017 18:03:32 +0000

This piece was co-authored by Emmett McGroarty, a senior fellow at the American Principles Project. In her recent appearance before a House subcommittee, Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos again made…

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Betsy DeVos’ Latest Speech Should Keep Conservatives on Edge

Jane Robbins — Tue, 23 May 2017 21:20:25 +0000

Conservatives have been waiting for Education Secretary Betsy DeVos to unveil how much federal muscle she’ll exercise to push school choice. In a speech Monday before the American Federation for…

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What Trump’s Religious Freedom Order Does — And What It Doesn’t Do

Jane Robbins — Fri, 05 May 2017 17:43:52 +0000

This piece was co-authored by Emmett McGroarty, a senior fellow at the American Principles Project. Several months ago, to the jubilation of conservatives and the dismay of leftists, the press…

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Ignore the Spin: Liberal Bullies Failed in North Carolina

Jane Robbins — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 21:58:41 +0000

The spin has begun from the results of the North Carolina governor’s race. Even as the votes are still being counted, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is suggesting that Governor Pat McCrory’s…

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Clinton Moves from One Religion to Another – You Must Come Too

Jane Robbins — Fri, 21 Oct 2016 15:15:31 +0000

It has been observed that secular progressivism is at its core not secular but rather deeply religious, replacing the Christian doctrine of redemption with a redemptive idea of politics. Even…

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Obama Touts Education Legacy, But Ignores Dismal Reality

Jane Robbins — Thu, 20 Oct 2016 20:56:53 +0000

Susan Berry of Breitbart reports on President Obama’s recent speech to an audience of high-school students, describing the state of his administration’s education policy. Parts of the speech obviously emerged from his…

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Schools Ditch Academics for Emotional Manipulation

Jane Robbins — Wed, 19 Oct 2016 15:23:30 +0000

This summer the Collaborative for Academic, Social and Emotional Learning (CASEL) announced it had chosen eight states to collaborate on creating K-12 “social emotional learning” (SEL) standards. All students, from kindergartners…

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Frustrated Jeb Bush Still Won’t Give Up on Common Core

Jane Robbins — Tue, 18 Oct 2016 20:30:15 +0000

Jeb Bush is disgruntled. The grand Common Core edifice is crumbling around him, and he can do little other than lash out at the people responsible. He did so last…

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WikiLeaks Emails Expose Details on Hillary’s $225,500 Common Core Speech

Jane Robbins — Tue, 11 Oct 2016 17:08:12 +0000

WikiLeaks emails reveal that Hillary Clinton is either as ignorant of, or as deceptive about, the Common Core scheme as most politicians are. Susan Berry of Breitbart News reports that in…

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