Faculty Lounge Common Core is Damaging American Student Readiness for College Spencer Irvine March 21, 2017 Joy Pullmann at the James G. Martin Center outlined why Common Core is hurting American students’ readiness for a college…
Perspectives Survey: Majority of Academics think it’s ‘Too Early to Tell’ if Common Core was the ‘Right Decision’ Spencer Irvine March 16, 2017 Common Core State Standards, a top-to-bottom federal government education curriculum, is a relative unknown among academics, college faculty and professors…
Faculty Lounge As New York Schoolchildren Get Older, They Do Worse on Math Spencer Irvine January 27, 2017 From School Reform News: Results of 2016 state testing data indicate 44 percent of New York 3rd graders were proficient…
Faculty Lounge Poll: Public Support for Common Core has Fallen by 40% Spencer Irvine October 17, 2016 From the School Reform News, published by the Heartland Institute: The survey, titled “Ten-Year Trends in Public Opinion from the…
Faculty Lounge New York Educators Lowered the Standards to Pass Common Core Tests Spencer Irvine October 13, 2016 From the New York Post: The state this year lowered the number of answers kids needed to get right on…
Perspectives Rebranding Common Core Malcolm A. Kline September 14, 2016 The unpopularity of the Common Core educational standards is not causing it’s proponents to rethink it but to rebrand it….
Faculty Lounge Actress and Homeschooling Advocate Sam Sorbo: Feds are Trying to Bully Parents to Enroll Kids in Common Core Spencer Irvine August 30, 2016 From the Daily Caller: Sam Sorbo is a passionate, dedicated homeschooling mom of three and talk radio host. Often on…
Faculty Lounge Report: Common Core Doesn’t Prepare Children for College Spencer Irvine July 29, 2016 This from The Daily Signal: A recently released report confirms what Common Core critics have suspected all along: Common Core…
Faculty Lounge End Common Core, say California Scholars Spencer Irvine June 17, 2016 Government mandates are not looked upon in a good light in America, and Common Core is one manifestation of such animosity…
Perspectives Common Core Great for Homeschooling Spencer Irvine April 13, 2016 The Heritage Foundation published a special report with essays from several education experts, detailing the background and the effects of…
Perspectives Common Core: Show Me the Money Malcolm A. Kline March 18, 2016 It turns out that Common Core’s creators might be demonstrating the same ethos Cuba Gooding’s character demonstrated in the film…
Faculty Lounge Senate GOP Help Advance Nominee who Pushed Common Core Spencer Irvine March 12, 2016 The Senate GOP appears to be ignoring the voice of the people, who don’t like Common Core. Photo by mike.cerrillo