The time is right to refocus school reform on practical objectives that can be achieved in local communities. Fortunately, a new online tool can empower parents and local school boards to work in unison toward an important common goal: ensuring third-graders have learned to read.
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Fishy Polls on Common Core
By exercising even a little of the critical thinking the pushers of these national standards claim to want mandated in all classrooms, consumers can learn a big, valuable lesson about polling that seeks to shape public opinion rather than honestly gauge it.
Choice as a Cure for Common Core
Suppose instead of making common cause with corporate titans and Washington technocrats to impose Common Core standards uniformly on education, philanthropist Bill Gates instead used his vast wealth to create his own brand of schools to compete in a vibrant educational marketplace.
Replacing Teacher Tenure with Incentives for Achievement
Could one ruling by one Los Angeles Superior Court judge free public education from the stultifying grip of the teacher tenure system and lead to widespread use of incentives to reward excellent work by teachers and students alike?
Core Opposition Will Grow
Your editorial “Rotten to the core” (March 23) pointed out a truth that many news articles omit or gloss over – namely, that opposition to the national Common Core standards crosses partisan and ideological lines. That is one reason to remain optimistic about the prospect for eventual repeal, despite anti-Common Core bills stalling out recently in Georgia, Mississippi and South Carolina.
Time of Testing Approaches for Obamacore
Maybe he was hard up for a good bragging point. Whatever the motive, President Barack Obama may rue taking ownership of the Common Core standardization of elementary and secondary education in his January 28 State of the Union oration.
Is Common Core ‘Rigorous,’ Or More Nearly The Opposite?
So often do avid boosters such as U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush extol the national standards for K-12 education as “rigorous,” it would be easy to conclude the adjective had become part of the name: The Rigorous Common Core State Standards.
Common Core Would Deliver a Crippling Blow to School Choice
Parents and other taxpayers have multiple reasons for mounting a full-fledged grassroots rebellion against the nationalized education program being marketed as the Common Core State Standards.
High School Senior Ethan Young Resists Common Core
Has anyone ever stated the purpose of education more succinctly than Ethan Young, a high school senior in Knoxville?
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[…]
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[…]
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[…]
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