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What do Diane Ravitch and the TEA party have in common?

Gerald Graff, a professor at the University of Illinois-Chicago, presented a defense of Common Core after author and educator Diane Ravitch strongly criticized the federal education curriculum.

When education reforms are attacked by both the Left and Right, maybe both sides have a good point.

If there’s one thing education experts agree on, it’s that Common Core isn’t creating a lot of common alliances!

Inevitably, the discussion veered from teacher-evaluation criteria at the federal and state levels to upcoming requirements of Common Core.

Two online courses on teaching the Common Core education initiative of the Obama Administration that are just about as vague as the program.

Their tales of success may leave parents grateful that they don’t have children who are students in those districts.

Student Achievement Partners co-founder Jason Zimba sat down the Thomas B. Fordham Institute’s Executive Vice President Michael Petrilli recently to promote Common Core, the Obama Administration’s higher education initiative.

Common Core, the Obama Administration’s education reform program, has been exposed as untested, subpar and even outdated by international standards, despite the federal government’s sales pitch to states.

Former Republican governors supporting President Obama’s Common Core education reforms may be riding a Trojan Horse.

The federal government tries to replace questionable education policies with a question mark.

Like top-down efforts to reform education pursued by Republican presidents, the Obama Administration’s Common Core program, in which states exchange essentially national standards for federal aid, is already flailing, if not failing.