The New York Times Buries the Real Story on Common Core
The New York Times posed this question in a recent story about the effects of Common Core in the 10 years since it was introduced: Did it fail, or does…
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U.S. Student Test Scores Plummet Again in Year 4 of Common Core
If there was any doubt that the Common Core standards have been harmful to American academic achievement, that doubt should be erased by the 2019 results from the National Assessment…
Parent Fights Back After Common Core Math Publisher Sues to Silence Him
Blain Dillard, the Carey, N.C., parent in the Wake County School District that we wrote about several weeks ago who is being sued by a Common Core math curriculum company…
More Voices Join the Chorus Against Social Emotional Learning
As alarm about the problems, dangers, and poor research related to social emotional learning (SEL) spreads, prominent new voices are entering the fray to speak against it. Bob Kellogg at…
Common Core Math Publisher Sues Parent for Opposing Curriculum
According to a local report, the publisher of a controversial Common Core math curriculum used in the Wake County, N.C., public school district (WCPSS) is suing an individual parent for…
How States Can Fix Math Education Post-Common Core
As the evidence becomes clearer that experts and parents were right about Common Core being an academic disaster and not merely derailed by implementation problems, states must grapple with the…
“Social Emotional Learning” Standards Continue Ominous National March
As chronicled in multiple articles (also here and here) and the Pioneer Institute white paper authored by attorney Jane Robbins and myself, efforts to impose government-determined norms for the attitudes,…
Here’s What States Should Do to Really Get Rid of Common Core
At the end of last week’s column discussing yet another study demonstrating the colossal academic failure of the Common Core standards in math and English Language Arts (ELA), I said…
“A Little Troubling”: Study by Pro-Common Core Group Finds Standards Have Failed
Yet another study confirms what a miserable academic failure the Common Core standards have turned out to be. The research was carried out by the federally funded Center on Standards,…
Lawmakers Still Pushing “Personalized Learning” Despite Huge Problems
The corporate technology push of machine-based skills training continues to march across the nation. This effort goes by the names such as “competency-based education” (CBE), “personalized learning,” and “mastery education.”…
New Law, Same Story: Fed Ed Tyranny Continues Under ESSA
The Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) passed Congress in 2015 despite the strong protests of more than 200 organizations and leaders after claims by leadership about the legislation: “Prohibiting the…
New Report: 50 Years of ‘Fed Ed’ Has Failed to Close Achievement Gap
New data continues to confirm what has been obvious for decades: federal interference in education since 1965 has failed to improve the academic achievement of poor children. This difference between…
New Study Shows Dangers and Ineffectiveness of “Social-Emotional Learning”
The Pioneer Institute, a national leader in the fight against Common Core and other horrible corporatist and global education reform ideas, today released a new study titled “Social-Emotional Learning: K–12…
Common Core & SEL Architect Linda Darling Hammond to Lead CA State Board of Ed
Karen Effrem: California Governor Gavin Newsom appointed radical Stanford professor emerita Linda Darling-Hammond to lead the California State Board of Education.
Does America Really Want a Federalized School Choice Program?
During last week’s State of the Union speech, President Trump spoke briefly on education by stating, “To help support working parents, the time has come to pass school choice for…
Gov. Ron DeSantis Takes Important Step to End Common Core in Florida
Last week, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis followed through on an oft-repeated campaign pledge to “end the last vestiges” of Common Core in the Sunshine State. He signed Executive Order 19-32…
Corporate America Continues to Treat Students as Widgets
Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, gave a speech last week on the “State of American Business,” in which he described the Chamber’s views and plans on…
DeVos’ Swiss Agreement Overlooks Deep Problems with School-to-Work Model
U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, along with the Secretaries of Labor and Commerce, recently signed a memorandum of understanding with the Swiss government to collaborate in the area of…
New Evidence Shows Common Core Has Been a Total Disaster
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…
2018 Midterms Could Have Wide Impact on Education Issues
The 2018 midterm elections are (almost) now in the books. Here is a brief review of the education outcomes relating to Common Core, Congress and FedEd, school funding, and school…