The Federal Department of Education has sent a letter to Washington’s Superintendent of Public Instruction removing Washington State’s waiver from some of the No Child Left Behind’s costly requirements……Federal funding for education is like a drug. Let us clear our minds of the notion that federal money is something we absolutely need and remember that before 1965 schools functioned well without it. […]

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 […]

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 […]

Meet Jacob Barnett. His doctors and therapists advised his parents that due to his autism he would never talk. His mother, Kristine Barnett, decided to focus on what Jacob could do rather than what he could not do. Now, at fifteen years old, he attends Perimeter Institute in Waterloo, Ontario. Read more.

In the “good old days” we occasionally had fire drills. In some states there were earthquake drills. In the wake of the Sandy Hook and other shootings,  a Missouri law  now mandates simulated shooter drills for the schools! Some students volunteer to be victims and to be covered with fake blood and bullet holes.  Adult drill […]

For many months the Romeike family, persecuted in Germany for homeschooling, has been seeking amnesty in the USA. They have been living in Tennessee and have been working with the Home School Legal Defense Association to obtain amnesty. Just this week, the US Supreme Court declined to consider their case, and the outlook appeared bleak, […]