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This from The Daily Signal: A recently released report confirms what Common Core critics have suspected all along: Common Core State Standards do not adequately prepare students for college-level work. The ACT report finds many concerning shortcomings in the Common Core State Standards, which have been adopted by most states.

Government mandates are not looked upon in a good light in America, and Common Core is one manifestation of such animosity between citizen and government: The California Alliance of Researchers for Equity in Education (CAREE), which brings together more than 100 university-based education researchers, recently released aResearch Brief, titled “Common Core State Standards Assessments in California: […]

The Heritage Foundation published a special report with essays from several education experts, detailing the background and the effects of Common Core. Stanley Kurtz, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and William Estrada, director of federal relations at the Home School Legal Defense Association, highlighted the problems with Common Core. Estrada […]

It turns out that Common Core’s creators might be demonstrating the same ethos Cuba Gooding’s character demonstrated in the film Jerry Maguire when he said, “Show me the money.” “An undercover journalist for a nonprofit organization captured candid video of a national textbook company’s sales executive making inflammatory remarks about federal Common Core standards and […]

The Senate GOP appears to be ignoring the voice of the people, who don’t like Common Core. Photo by mike.cerrillo

Establishment Republicans are always mystified when they embrace Democratic Party policies and get hammered for it, particularly, as is frequently the case, when those programs don’t work particularly well. “It was everyday moms who shamed the Republicans into abandoning Common Core,” syndicated columnist Michelle Malkin averred at the Conservative Political Action Conference. “There are three […]

Editor’s Note: The original post was published by the Selous Foundation for Public Policy Research. James O’Keefe’s undercover videos reveal what activists have been saying for years: Common Core is a set of standards written not for the benefit of students, but to enrich crony capitalists, such as mega-curriculum companies, Houghton Mifflin-Harcourt, Pearson, and National […]

Reason gazillion of why federally-mandated Common Core standards are just a way for corporations to get data on your children and grandchildren. Photo by Chung Chu

What do Common Core and Obamacare have in common, other than the enthusiasm they engender in the White House and widespread disappointment they generate outside of it? Both programs have fatal computer glitches. “New Hampshire-based company Measured Progress, which developed online Common Core tests used in Montana, Nevada, and North Dakota, has acknowledged a major […]

Via Education News: Continuing its legal battle to stop the federal government from usurping control over the nation’s elementary and secondary public schools, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC), a national public interest law firm based in Ann Arbor, MI filed a third lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a state’s implementation of Common Core and […]

Common Core hurts English language learners, as this piece in the Washington Post refers to.

A recent American Institutes for Research (AIR) assessment noted that Common Core standards are not matching National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) standards at the fourth grade level: “There are substantial differences in some content areas, particularly areas where NAEP assesses content that the CCSS has shifted to later grade levels…Only 62% of NAEP grade […]