Common Core State Standards
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See what our government has in mind with respect to collecting data from the children and using it to “improve” education. Although this US Department of Education report is still a draft, it is valuable as a glimpse into the minds of the elites who plan to shape our children.
Read the report.
Here are some quick links to more information on Common Core.
Washington State Against Common Core (on Facebook)
(CURE’s suggestion of these links does not mean that we automatically endorse other positions held by the writers at these websites.)
“I plead with all you well-intentioned but definitely misguided administrators, teachers, and politicians. Raise your heads out of the dust and realize that America is great because America bucked against the status quo.”
A native of Ghana, Alma Ohene-Opare, explains the over-controlling education system of his former country, and urges the USA not to repeat those mistakes.
Read his article, posted by Eagle Forum, linked here.
Isn’t it enough that the SAT, ACT, and the GRE are aligned with the Common Core? The Washington Post writes that now even Girl Scout badges are aligned with the Common Core.
All aspects of society– from birth to preschool to K-12 education to college and jobs–are intended to be aligned. “Seamless” is the term. Please realize, “seamless” is NOT a good thing. Read the article by Valerie Strauss of the Washington Post.
Some students taking Utah’s SAGE assessment this spring experienced what they described as “weird” colors and sounds while taking the math assessment. SAGE is Utah’s new computer adaptive assessment. From interviews with students, it seems that not every student took the version of the assessment that subjected students to the weird colors and strange voices. Some students appeared to be taking a different version.
Washington State also has a computer adaptive assessment. Washington’s assessments are being developed by the Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC), one of the two assessment consortia for the Common Core. It is not known yet whether the Washington state assessment resembles the Utah SAGE assessment.
Parents, if your child took the Common Core Assessments this year, please ask him or her to tell you about it. If your child had a similar anxiety-producing experience, please contact the person who produced the video below, and also contact us. Our e-mail is cure@curewashington.org. A sample opt-out form can be found along the top bar of our website.
Please watch the entire video.
Click to download a sample Opt-out form which you can adjust to fit your situation.
Even the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction acknowledges that you may opt out your child from assessments. See the third question on their assessment information page.
Also, read the commentary from our friends at “Stop Common Core in Washington State”.
The Seattle School District has been uploading personal information to the data storage company ConnectEDU for the past three years. Now ConnectEDU is going bankrupt and the company is refusing to delete the personal data as stated in their contract with the Seattle School District. Read the article.
Increasing amounts of personal data are being collected on all public school students. The data collection is underway in government-funded preschools and even earlier. We encourage parents to be assertive about protecting the private information of their children. In this age of computers, this data can be stored indefinitely and can be hacked, misused, shared, or sold. Please be vigilant.
On March 24, 2014, Indiana’s Governor Pence signed SB 91 into law replacing the Common Core State Standards with its own Indiana Standards. So what’s the problem?
Somehow, they ended up with new standards that were almost the same as the recently rejected standards.
Indiana wanted to keep their federal waiver from the No Child Left Behind Act’s onerous mandates. To do this, they had to develop “college and career readiness” standards which met the federal guidelines, that is, they had to use the same blueprint to build their Indiana Standards as the blueprint for the Common Core.
Read the article.
The data tech company inBloom was started with seed money from the Gates Foundation. The company’s plan was to collect student data from various sources, store them in the “cloud” and allow the data to be accessed for various educational purposes. Faced with parent concerns and with recent data protection legislation from the New York […]