Common Core Fairy Tales
Sol Stern is a nice man. It’s too bad he’s deceiving himself and others about Common Core, an enterprise that essentially nationalizes U.S. education. He and Joel Klein write in[...]
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A Thousand Ohioans Pack Common Core Forums
This past weekend, I spoke at three events in Ohio on Common Core–new national education standards 45 states have adopted. We had speaking panels in Cincinnati and Cleveland and a[...]
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Michelle Malkin Cites the Work of Heartland’s Joy Pullmann on Creepy Common Core
Joy Pullmann, education research fellow at The Heartland Institute and managing editor of School Reform News, has been all over the Common Core beat. Her research and reporting of this[...]
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News Round-up from the Heartlander
If you’re getting this email, you are tuned in to The Heartland Institute, one of America’s most influential free-market think tanks. Our work reflects the exchange of ideas, insights, and opinions[...]
Common Core K-12 Hits Home
Defenders of home schooling are beginning to worry about the Common Core K-12 standards morphing into a national curriculum that will stifle the family-centered creativity that has fostered high rates[...]
Education Policy is Not Washington’s Business
By briefly quoting one critic of the national Common Core education standards, which are shaping curricula and tests for schoolchildren in Pennsylvania and across the nation, the Trib at least[...]
Indiana Needs a Debate on Common Core Education Standards
Indiana Schools Superintendent Tony Bennett is likely to win re-election this fall. But as he campaigns these last few weeks, Bennett would be wise to preempt a coming erosion in[...]
Romney and Obama Differ Sharply on Education Choice and Control
[First published Oct. 3 in the Daily Caller.] Now that Mitt Romney has taken a stand for local and parental control of education and against federalized Common Core standards and[...]
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Heartland Daily Podcast: Stanley Kurtz on Obama’s Education Takeover
On today’s Heartland Daily Podcast … Is President Obama attempting to take over the nation’s schools? Renowned Obama scholar Stanley Kurtz (see his archive at National Review) joins Joy Pullmann to[...]
Don’t Let ‘Common Core’ Drop the Classics
In this most politically polarized of years, there is an issue that could bring many people on the left and right together, were they to focus on it in open[...]
Education · Environment/Energy
Teaching Global Warming in Kindergarten
(First published in The Washington Times.) The Common Core state education standards list what math and language-arts information and skills children should master in each grade. Forty-five states adopted those[...]
Elections Have Consequences for Local Control over Education
This week, the Department of Education announced the next iteration of Race to the Top, this time with a special focus on preschool and early childhood programs. Called the “Early[...]
S.C. Shying Away from Federal Education Funds
After pulling back from its adoption of Common Core standards, South Carolina has also decided to avoid federal education strings by declining to participate in the next round of Race[...]
What’s the Matter with Kansas?
The Kansas State Board of Education earlier this month signed on to the Common Core State Standards Initiative, making Kansas the 38th state to join the “quiet revolution” toward national[...]
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