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.
August 30, 2014
“Critical thinking” is another one of those terms which have been perverted by the education program developers. They know that parents want their children to become critical thinkers, so they use the term to introduce concepts and lessons to which parents might otherwise object. A few months ago, students in the Rialto School District in California were given a “critical thinking” assignment — to write a Holocaust-denying essay. Read more…
Find out more about semantic deception from our website, linked here.
August 19, 2014
YOU ARE INVITED TO A PRESENTATION
COMMON CORE
STANDARDIZING OUR CHILDREN
Common Core Standards and the way they were implemented are just the tip of the iceberg. Come find out what’s underneath and what to do about it!
Hosted by: Citizens United for Responsible Education and
Washington State Against Common Core Standards
Date: Saturday, August 23, 2014
Time: 1:00 – 3:30 pm
Location: La Bella Vie Event Center
18507 East Apple Way Avenue
Green Acres, WA 99016
Just west of Barker on Appleway in the Spokane Valley
For more information contact:
Cindy………narrowgatefarms@gmail.com
Breann…….btreffry@wsu.edu
Joyce……..cure@curewashington.org
July 24, 2014
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.)
July 24, 2014
“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.
July 24, 2014
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.
June 4, 2014
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.
May 31, 2014
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.
May 31, 2014
It almost seems as if today’s definition of school data privacy is that school records are kept private from the parents. A Nevada father asked to see his four children’s school records and was told the fee would be $10,000!
In today’s computer-driven classrooms, an enormous amount of data can potentially be collected and stored indefinitely on computers. Through children’s responses on open-ended questions, a complete personality profile could potentially be compiled. We might trustingly hope that this would never happen, but just how do parents find out what information is being collected? Read the article.
May 31, 2014
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.