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Perhaps to some, when you have to chose between reading Charles Dickens or studying a driver’s manual, the choice is obvious.

Unfortunately, the former is winning, and students are suffering the loss.

One of the groups that has doubled down on pushing the Common Core Curriculum Standards (CCCS) in the English Language Arts (ELA) seems to be saying that Common Core hasn’t worked because it hasn’t been tried.

A new study from the Pioneer Institute in Boston shows that in Massachusetts, Common Core, like the world, is with us late and soon. Unfortunately, it’s got all the world’s drawbacks and none of its benefits.

He wrote volumes on education but don’t expect the books of Michael Oakeshott (1901-1990) to show up on an education school’s library shelves.

Joy Pullmann at the James G. Martin Center outlined why Common Core is hurting American students’ readiness for a college career: Unfortunately, in the era of Common Core, the main educational emphasis is “career-readiness.” It drops the vision of American citizens as free people with the right and responsibility of self-rule, and instead treats students […]

Common Core State Standards, a top-to-bottom federal government education curriculum, is a relative unknown among academics, college faculty and professors in higher education. A joint survey, headed by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), discovered that the majority of their respondents had mixed responses to Common Core’s design and implementation. The survey had forty-nine respondents from […]

From Debbie Schlussel: Betsy DeVos and her husband, Dick DeVos, financed anti-Israel, pro-Muslim propaganda posing as “curriculum” in America’s public schools. The Dick & Betsy DeVos Family Foundation financed the anti-Israel, pro-Muslim MidEast Policy Council’s “Teach MidEast” and its “Bridges at School” curriculum.

From the School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute: The survey, titled “Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the EdNext Poll,” conducted by Education Next, a journal published by the Harvard Kennedy School’s Program on Education Policy and Governance, found, “[T]he demise of school reform has been greatly exaggerated.” “Public support remains as high […]

From the New York Post: The state this year lowered the number of answers kids needed to get right on 11 of the 12 Common Core exams, fueling concerns that rising scores were inflated. In both English and math, students in grades three to eight had to earn fewer points to be rated “proficient” on […]

The unpopularity of the Common Core educational standards is not causing it’s proponents to rethink it but to rebrand it. “In 2010, every state but Alaska, Nebraska, Texas, and Virginia adopted Common Core State Standards, a set of requirements for what elementary and secondary school children should know in each grade in math and English […]

From the Daily Caller: Sam Sorbo is a passionate, dedicated homeschooling mom of three and talk radio host. Often on Fox News, Sorbo is an actress, former model and biomedical engineer from Duke University, who is married to actor Kevin Sorbo of “Hercules” fame. She is also the author of recent book “They’re Your Kids.” Mandated government schools […]