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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Every Child Achieves Act
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Every Child Achieves Act Is Bad News for Students, Teachers
From The Daily Caller: Sen. Lamar Alexander’s Every Child Achieves Act, which recently passed the Senate, is brimming with troubling provisions. One that has received little attention is the grant…
GOP Senate Fails to Protect Schoolkids from Big Brother
The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives are considering legislation to reauthorize No Child Left Behind (NCLB), the major federal K-12 education law. The House and Senate leadership are intent…
Will Republicans Carry Obama’s Water on Common Core?
The most far-reaching federal education law—No Child Left Behind (NCLB)—has been up for reauthorization for eight years. Now, with the Obama Administration waning, Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) is in a…
NCLB Rewrite Fails Again
An op-ed from APIA Senior Fellow Jane Robbins and Ohio mom activist Heidi Huber in Townhall.com: Parents across the nation are in open revolt against the testing mania that has…
Liberal Comedian Mocks Standardized Testing, Common Core
Slowly, but ever so surely, those in the media are realizing that criticism of No Child Left Behind and the national Common Core system is not limited to the far…
