Here is another concerned mom’s testimony before her State Board of Education in Arkansas. There have been many parents speaking out against what is happening to their children. When will the legislators and the members of the boards of education start listening??

The Washington State House of Representatives now has a bill to eliminate the Common Core!

House Bill 2165, sponsored by Representative Elizabeth Scott, calls for a revision of the Essential Academic Learning Requirements (EALRs) such that they do NOT align with the Common Core, and it calls for Washington to withdraw from the Smarter Balanced Assessments Consortium.

The happy news is that bills such as this one and Senate Bill 6030 against the Common Core, will be alive for two years. Even though the bills may not become law during this session, they still have a chance next year.

If your children plan to enroll in the Advanced Placement History program be forewarned that it has been changed and no longer teaches the traditional history course. Jane Robbins of the American Principles Project warns us that the College Board’s Advanced Placement History Course has been transformed, now that David Coleman, reported architect of the Common Core, is head of the College Board. Watch the video clip.

Bah! Humbug! Those of us educated before the Common Core will know what literary work is referenced by that exclamation. Okay, so those who watch movies may also know…but they will understand that the movie was made from the book. All that is changing. The Common Core English Language Arts standards will require 50% of […]

“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 […]

In September of 2011, as the Common Core State Standards were being completed, Senator Marco Rubio wrote a letter asking Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to justify his program, since there were at least three laws stating that such a program was illegal. Read Senator Rubio’s letter. In the letter he cites three laws that […]

Have you been hearing about the “Common Core State Standards”? Here is a video which explains the frightening concept and which explains that this is just one component of a larger agenda. The speaker, Jane Robbins of the American Principles Project, begins the explanation with the Race to the Top program, but the roots of transformation of education began decades ago. A significant year was 1965 when federal moneys were first given to states bringing federal mandates to local districts, and another critical year was 1994 when Goals 2000 and the School-to-Work Opportunities Act were passed. President Obama’s Race to the Top program is the most recent step in the destruction of American education. Local control has been systematically destroyed. Please watch all five parts of this video.

Reward good teachers and get rid of bad teachers–sounds like a good idea right? But in this era of re-defined terms nothing is as it seems. The problem is how “good” and “bad” teaching are defined. Read this commentary by Kyle Olson who examines just one of the many problems with teacher evaluations.

Paradigm Change: More Magic than Logic by John C. Hillary, is an article from the 1990-91 issue of OUTCOMES, a professional education journal on outcome-based education. Read the article linked from the “American Deception” website.

The National Governors Association and the Council of Chief School State Officers who are the proponents of the Common Core State Standards claim that the new standards will be an ideal solution for improving education in the U.S.A. But a leading education specialist calls the standards “pedagogically useless.”