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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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…
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.”…
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…
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…
Bill Gates Education Experiment Fails Again, Taxpayers Foot $300 Million Bill
A new report by the Rand Corporation evaluating yet another Bill Gates education debacle — this time for teacher evaluation — was discussed recently in both Forbes by Rick Hess…
The Student Data Grabbers Are Back in Washington — And They Want More
Despite Bill Gates tacit admission that his Common Core experiment failed (which is true of every other education experiment he has tried), he and his data grabbing grantees in academia…
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…
Bill Gates Thinks Twitter Destroyed Common Core
Apparently, Bill Gates thinks that the pro-Common Core movement was derailed by online comments consisting of 140 characters or less — what most people know as tweets. This, presumably, is…
Frustrated Jeb Bush Still Won’t Give Up on Common Core
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…
New Report: Winners and Losers of Common Core
Teresa Mull of the Heartland Institute writes about a new report analyzing the enormous funding of the Common Core national standards — where the money came from, what it was…
Obama Administration Wants to Kiss Your Local Schools Goodbye
If the Obama administration and its supporters have their way, the suburban neighborhood school could be headed for extinction. In a veritable symphony of bureaucratic coordination, the administration has figured…
Massachusetts Court Thwarts Parent-Led Effort to Put Common Core on Ballot
Last week the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) threw out an initiative petition signed by over 130,000 Massachusetts citizens to challenge the adoption and implementation of the Common Core national standards and…
Gates Foundation: If At First Common Core Doesn’t Succeed, Try Again!
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is demonstrating its grit, tenacity, and perseverance — character traits much in vogue among the progressive-education set — by refusing to admit defeat in…
Gates Admits that Education Efforts “Really Haven’t Changed Outcomes”
Progressive educrats tell us that the onset of the 21st century changes everything about how we educate children. What worked for little boys named Thomas Jefferson and Winston Churchill is…
Jeb Bush’s Friends Spend Big to Support Student Data Grab
Just as the Common Core pushing textbook publishing giants like Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson have had financial incentive to support Jeb Bush and his now former organization, the Foundation…
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…
Did Slanted Questions Skew Latest NBC Common Core Poll?
A new NBC poll shows that 50 percent of the parents surveyed favor the Common Core national standards (61% of Democrats but only 26% of Republicans). These results contrast with…
