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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 the USA” general education core curriculum requirement by taking the class, the university’s website states. The class, “Taco Literacy: Public […]

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 that. But, they are the first in the state of Virginia to do so.

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) compared media coverage of President Obama’s Common Core initiative with reportage on vouchers and the results are illuminating.

The not-yet published Common Core standards give every indication of mangling Cold War History.

George W. Bush’s now infamous and highly debated domestic and once celebrated bipartisan policy, No Child Left Behind (NCLB), sought to raise the national quality for students in reading and math by 2014.

Are Nebraska college students receiving a well-rounded education?

As the debate continues on national health care, the U. S. House Energy and Commerce Committee convened to question expert witnesses – Governors from Mississippi, Massachusetts and Utah – on alternatives to Obamacare.

Those who argue that colleges and universities lack standards may be incorrect but only technically.

Or, what is the Common Core of government policy?

Former Florida governor Jeb Bush will bring his legendary low energy to the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), ostensibly to promote Education Savings Accounts (ESAs) but we wouldn’t be against him giving a shout out, or the Bush family equivalent of one, to Common Core.

Even education insiders are beginning to acknowledge that the data mining the federal government is now engaged in under Common Core produces little in the way of education achievement.

“Race to the Top” required that states commit to yet-to-be-written Common Core standards in math and English/Language Arts (ELA).