Bill Nye is Clueless About Common Core and Its Opposition
Bill Nye gives an inane explanation for why he supports core standards and why some people oppose them demonstrates he lacks knowledge on both subjects.
Study Finds Common Core Math Will Reduce Enrollment in High-Level H.S. Math Courses
Richard P. Phelps and R. James Milgram, authors of a study find that higher education was scarcely involved with creating the Common core Math Standards.
New Study: Common Core ELA Standards Harms U.S. History Instruction
A new Pioneer Institute study finds Common Core will further damage history instruction by including U.S. History in its English language arts standards.
An Iowa voter and 2008 supporter of Mike Huckabee in the Iowa Caucus writes to the Governor about his recent remarks about the Common Core State Standards.
Iowa Withdraws From Common Core Assessment Consortia
Iowa Gov. Terry Branstad and Iowa Dept. of Ed Director Brad Buck informed Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium that Iowa was withdrawing immediately.
Des Moines Public Schools’ Race to the Middle in Middle School
Middle schools in Des Moines are dropping advanced classes for their experiment in standards based grading as they implement the Iowa Core in the district.
Federal programs are failing the teaching profession once again using a bull dozer to solve a small problem with the constraints that tenure put on firing some teachers.
Chris Christie is Bad on Common Core, Judges and Bridges
Chris Christie is bad on the Common Core, judges and is embroiled in two different scandals, so his Obama bear hug is the least of his problems in 2016.