It’s been a rough year for the Common Core standards. As parents, teachers, officials, and politicians learn more about the standards, more and more states are considering ways to get out of Common ...
As in many states, Louisiana’s Common Core review is the result of years of pressure from parents and politicians. Last year, lawmakers — in an effort to neutralize the issue in the months leading up ...
Heartland: ‘Big Data’ Tries to Zero Out Parents in Common Core Review
When grassroots parents discovered big-education elitists had kept them in the dark about the Common Core (CC) experiment being conducted on their children, they helped to shine a bright light on the ...
WRAL: NC schools superintendent texted a half million parents and teachers to get feedback on Common Core
NC schools superintendent texted a half million parents and teachers to get feedback on Common Core
Some Eastchester parents say a school is using a bullying tactic to get their kids to take the Common Core tests. A letter from the superintendent was sent Wednesday to Greenvale Elementary School ...
The Durango Herald: For parents, Common Core math just doesn’t add up
Lair, chairman of Missouri’s House Appropriations Committee on Education, inserted an $8 budget line item to mock Common Core critics as tinfoil hat-wearing conspiracy theorists. Lair’s item reads: ...
One of the three lead writers of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), a national initiative with roots in No Child Left Behind and other federal government education programs, recently told a ...