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Common Core Robs Kids of Creativity, Professor Says
Common Core is crushing creativity by teaching students to regurgitate words and phrases in English language arts rather than restate ideas in…
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News and analysis on Common Core education standards, including curriculum, testing, academic requirements, state policy, teachers, parents, and the debate over education standards in Massachusetts and across America.
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Sandra Stotsky Review: New Book Tells Some of the Story of How Common Core Infiltrated Education, Took Over, and Lowered Standards
Bill Gates somehow managed to get the U.S. Department of Education not only to buy into Common Core but also foist…
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How Do You Sell Common Core Standards and Tests To Unwilling Parents? Hide Them
An interesting game is being played by U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander (R-Tennessee), the major sponsor of the Every Student Succeeds…
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Lies They Told You About Common Core
Amazingly, the Common Core project was sold to state boards and school administrators as "state-led." (See, for example, here.…
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What Happened to Common Core?
The issue was a staple of Trump's campaign platform, so where has it gone?…
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Did duplicity about Common Core’s standards help lead to national incivility and voter alienation?
The current degradation of the presidential campaign (it seems to be about who can better smear the other major candidate) and the…
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Future unclear for Massachusetts Common Core opponents after court ruling
BOSTON — A week after a Supreme Judicial Court ruling delivered a fatal blow to their efforts to put the future of Common…
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Who reviews new ELA and math textbooks?
Because most states adopted Common Core's standards, most school systems are investing in new textbooks for ELA and Math. And…
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The ACT can’t decide whether it likes Common Core or not
One of America's biggest standardized tests apparently can't decide how it feels about Common Core, and appears to…
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Our judiciary failed our public schools – and our democracy
Last week, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts stopped voters from weighing in on a citizen-backed initiative to repeal Common Core.…
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To bring back U.S. history, first repeal Common Core
By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood…
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Anti-Common Core initiative moves one step closer to ballot
Voters in Massachusetts might be the first in the nation to weigh in directly on Common Core educational standards. Last week, End…
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Were Common Core’s ELA Standards written by charlatans? Sure seems so.
To bypass statutes forbidding the federal government to develop national standards, two private organizations—the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council…
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Bailing on Common Core tests is costing states millions
Nearly two dozen states have attempted to go it alone on standardized tests, pulling out of a multi-state test consortia in…
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The Common Core journalism blackout
Earlier this month, a deliberately anonymous teacher set forth some of the problems she saw in the Common Core-based test she…
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Spreading the Massachusetts ‘education miracle’
Last week, the NewBostonPost reported that the Michigan state Senate is considering dropping the national Common Core standards and replacing them and…
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Michigan Senate panel turns to old Mass. MCAS standards
BOSTON – If efforts to repeal Common Core education standards succeed and the state returns to the old approach used with the Massachusetts…
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Common Core is not a threat to history in Massachusetts
There has been much discussion lately about the Common Core standards and their effect on education in Massachusetts. My knowledge comes from…
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Mass AG dishes back on Common Core supporters’ lawsuit
BOSTON — Attorney General Maura Healey, named in a lawsuit by a band of pro-Common Core plaintiffs who allege she erred in…
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Common Core tests given failing grades by NY teachers
This is the season for standardized test-taking in public schools and that has led to a resurgence in the sometimes anguished…
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New Bedford presses parents to accept PARCC exams
NEW BEDFORD – School officials in this seaside city are pressing parents to allow their children to take the controversial PARCC exams, claiming…
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School choice: Fig leaf of the pro-Common Core Right
A recent report by the conservative Heritage Foundation suggests that the best way to fight the controversial Common Core educational standards is…
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Heritage Foundation report addresses Common Core
How does one tie together the motives of a student, a teacher, a parent and a politician to produce national education standards?…
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Acts of deception have morphed into bullying
Perhaps the greatest act of deception on behalf of Common Core is the preposterous claim by its major author Senator Lamar Alexander…
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Committee forms to oppose Common Core ballot question
BOSTON – Former Fitchburg State University president Robert Antonucci will lead a new committee to fight a ballot question that would allow Massachusetts…
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Common Core foes vow stepped up ballot campaign
BOSTON – Supporters of an initiative to end the adoption of national Common Core education standards in Massachusetts pledged to obtain the petition…
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State law banning secret recording faces court challenge
BOSTON – Project Veritas, a guerilla journalism group known for taking undercover videos focusing a conservative eye on topics ranging from vote fraud…
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Charter cap, Common Core weighed by lawmakers
BOSTON – A pair of hotly contested ballot proposals came in for some emotional testimony Monday during a public hearing hosted by the…
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Time for Gov. Baker to take a stand on Common Core
As a sitting governor in a blue state, Charlie Baker must think he is immune from the upheaval in the Republican Party.…
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To improve teacher quality, ditch Common Core
Most governors, state commissioners of education, state boards of education, and Chambers of Commerce seem to have an unshakable confidence in Common…
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Gates Foundation tied to suit against Common Core ballot measure
BOSTON – A lawsuit that aims to prevent Massachusetts voters from weighing in on the controversial Common Core educational standards has backing from…
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The high cost of academically under-qualified teachers
It was once a matter of common sense that teachers cannot teach what they do not know. And research supports the view…
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Pearson exec slams opponents of Common Core as supporters head to court to prevent Mass. vote
A video in which a former textbook publishing executive defends the controversial federal Common Core educational standards and says that its creators…
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Common Core profiteers depicted in 4th Veritas video
Publishers profiting from the Common Core educational standards once again became the target of undercover video outfit Project Veritas as it released…
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Maine Common Core foes cross party lines to push repeal
AUGUSTA, Maine – A bipartisan group of Maine lawmakers is pushing a measure to repeal national education standards, known as Common Core, adopted…
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Common Core supporters sue to prevent vote
BOSTON – Supporters of Common Core sued Friday to prevent Massachusetts voters from having an opportunity to weigh in on whether the Commonwealth…
