Kindergarten used to be where youngsters did finger-painting and made shapes out of clay.  Children learned valuable lessons  about being polite, sharing, and taking turns. They learned to be creative, musical, and artistic.

Today, the goal of education including preschool is to prepare children for the workforce–to make them college and career ready.  A Washington Post article by Valerie Strauss reports that a New York school has cancelled a kindergarten show so that there is more time for college and career training. Read the article.

Last September there was a  video about the Maryland father who was arrested after being removed from a Common Core meeting.  He felt that key questions, which had to be submitted on slips of paper, were being unanswered by officials from the Maryland Department of Education who were running the meeting.  A security guard removed […]

Read the humorous comments by Jay P. Greene about the creation of the standards. He tells us to be prepared for the US Chamber of Commerce’s steps to placate the public. This commentary comes via the Missouri Education Watchdog blog.

The Homeschool Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) has produced an excellent video explaining the Common Core. Featured in the video are James Millgram and Sandra Stotsky, the only two content experts on the Common Core Validation Committee. Along with three others validation committee members, they did not sign off on the Common Core State Standards.

Watch the movie.

For more information about the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, see their website.

Back in the days of the WASL, and even before that, parents had the right and ability to opt their children out of assessments, surveys, and other activities. You can still opt out your child from the Smarter Balanced Assessment which assesses the learning of Common Core State Standards.  The Smarter Balanced Assessment, meant to […]

It’s an old pattern of behavior on the part of change agents  and societal transformers.  If a program or concept becomes too objectionable, they don’t examine  the criticisms to see if the concerns are valid. They don’t try to repair the program or cancel it.  They rename it and push even harder. In the realm […]

“Hidden in Common Core is the real objective – presenting the minimal amount of material that high-school graduates need to be able to enter the work force in an entry-level job.” Dr. James Millgram and Emmet McGroarty have been examining the Common Core State Standards and have been speaking out against them. This article points […]

Of course we all want our children to have teachers who are compassionate, flexible, perceptive, good communicators, and experts in the subjects which they teach.  In other words, we want our teachers to be almost superhuman. Under the Race to the Top initiative of which the Common Core State Standards are a part, the desired […]

If you are a student who took part of the GED and need to finish taking the rest, complete it before the end of December 2013, or you will have to start over. David Coleman, often called the “architect” of the Common Core State Standards, is now the president of the College Board which produces […]

In October 2012, David Coleman, often called the “architect” of the Common Core State Standards, became the president of the College Board which produces the SAT exam. More recently he announced he is  aligning the SAT with the Common Core State Standards. The ACT exam was already aligned with the Common Core State Standards in […]