Falling ACT Scores Are Latest Evidence of Common Core’s Failure
ACT, the publisher of one of the two most often used college entrance exams in the nation, recently released a major report, “The Condition of College and Career Readiness –…
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New Report Reveals the Twin Dangers of Common Core and School Choice
A thorough new white paper from the Pioneer Institute titled “Common Core, School Choice and Rethinking Standards-Based Reform” expertly discusses the mountain of evidence showing the flaws and failures of…
Common Core Has Utterly Failed — But These Supporters Won’t Let It Go
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…
Pro-Common Core Republicans Suffer Big Losses in 2018 Primaries
Although many factors are involved, an encouraging trend for parents and grassroots activists is emerging in this 2018 Republican gubernatorial primary season. Those candidates listening to parents by opposing Common…
Feds Preparing to Expand Influence over Nation’s Preschools
Last week, Politico’s Morning Education discussed how the Preschool Development Grants started under the Obama administration for four-year-olds were adding thousands of new early childhood slots around the nation. The…
“Nation’s Report Card” Shows More Failing Grades for Common Core
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…
Progressives Renew Push for Nanny State Programs — Despite Poor Results
Progressives in both parties are continuing to use the government-created problem of fatherless poor and minority families to peddle their schemes of expanding the role of government-as-parent yet again to…
Betsy DeVos Just Delivered a Promising Speech. Will Her Actions Back It Up?
Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos gave an interesting speech to the American Enterprise Institute last week. In some parts, it contained rhetoric that skeptical conservatives have been waiting to hear.…
American Test Scores Are Nosediving. Is Common Core to Blame?
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…
Are Religious Schools in America Losing Their Religion?
In 2012, Pope Benedict XVI said, “The spiritual crisis overtaking the West is the most serious since the fall of the Roman Empire near the end of the 5th Century.”…
A Conservative Defense of Betsy DeVos
Since her confirmation in February of this year, Betsy DeVos has had a hard time finding her footing as America’s newest Education Secretary — a situation made so obvious in…
Insanity: After Repeated Failures, Bill Gates to Spend $1.7 Billion More on Education
One commonly used definition of insanity is “doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Bill Gates, the billionaire education philanthropist, has spent hundreds of millions of…
SPLC Has a New Target: Parents Who Oppose Common Core
The radical Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) just can’t leave conservatives alone. Already under fire for their thoroughly discredited and bogus “hate watch” list, the left-wing group recently included former CIA analyst…
The Department of Education Is Ruining US Schools. It’s Time to End It.
There is a bill awaiting the 115th United States Congress, H.R. 899, which calls for an end to our dreadful U.S. Department of Education. The elegant simplicity of this bill…
“PBIS”: Behind the Feds’ Wacky Scheme to Modify Children’s Behavior
Jane Robbins recently did an excellent job of describing the “government-sponsored personality manipulation” likely coming to a school near you. It is now time to look at the details of…
Why Common Core’s Lack of Literature Is Setting Kids Up for Failure
Recent research shows the average 12th grader reads at a 7th grade level. This finding isn’t terribly surprising. According to Renaissance Learning, developer of the popular Accelerated Reader, in 2015-16,…
POLL: Support for Charter Schools Plummets Nationwide — As It Should
The annual Education Next poll on education issues came out last week, and there was a very surprising finding regarding charter schools. After nearly ten years of very stable support…
Psychological Profiling of Students Ramps Up — And Parents Have No Idea
It is getting very hard to keep up with all of the ways social emotional learning (SEL) is infiltrating education in America and how the SEL data collection is expanding…
N.H. Takes Action to End Common Core Mandate, But Feds Still a Threat
Common Core took a hit in New Hampshire this month. Although the state adopted the Common Core standards, Republican Governor Chris Sununu signed Senate Bill 44 into law, which “prohibits…
Man Up, State Leaders! It’s Time to Declare Independence on Education!
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…
