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Whose Common Core?
If the federal government’s new education standards are so common, why have few people seen them?
Hollow Common Core
In their frustration with education reform, conservative theorists often fall prey to the same inclination of their putative opponents—nationalization.
Uncommon Catholic Core
The Obama Administration’s Common Core education initiative may be problematic for private Catholic schools as well as the public ones the program is designed for.
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Test scores plummet in large cities with strong union presence
As the old saying goes, where there is smoke, there is fire. As Americans for Fair Treatment pointed out, data from The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) demonstrated that the longer period of time that…
The Wells Fargo Scandal Sounds a Lot like the Atlanta Teacher-Test Scores Scandal
A good read on the similarities between the two scandals: This all sounds a lot like the Atlanta public schools test-cheating scandal of 2013. The superintendent relied on cash incentives for raising test scores and…
Mexican Food Class Earns Credit Toward Core Requirements at University of Kentucky
College education is really educational, guys and girls, but tacos! Students enrolled this semester in a writing course focused entirely on Mexican food at the University of Kentucky are meeting their “Community, Culture and Citizenship in…
VCU ditches SAT scores for Applicants
Virginia Commonwealth University, located in Richmond, Virginia, will ditch using SAT scores for applicants with a GPA at 3.3 or higher. Apparently, they’re not the first to do so, as 800 other colleges have done…
Media Blackout on ObamaCore
The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) compared media coverage of President Obama’s Common Core initiative with reportage on vouchers and the results are illuminating.
Uncommon Cold War Myths
The not-yet published Common Core standards give every indication of mangling Cold War History.