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Maura Healey

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 certifying an initiative petition that would let voters decide whether to keep the controversial standards or revert to Massachusetts' own pre-2010 frameworks, has responded with a court filing

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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 debate over Common Core education standards for math and English. Last week in New York state, students took Common Core English-language arts tests developed by Pearson, a U.K.

Massachusetts

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 that too many opt-outs of the Common Core-aligned tests may harm the district financially and otherwise. The controversy over the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and

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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 to oppose the "centralization of education." The report tells dissident parents that the best way to fight Common Core and improve schools is to promote "

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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? This is one of several questions that the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, seeks to answer in its latest report, entitled "Common Core and the Centralization

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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 about what he had accomplished with the recent re-authorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. In an op-ed in The Tennessean on Dec. 12, 2015, Senator 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 voters to weigh in on whether to repeal Common Core educational standards. The Committee to Protect Educational Excellence in Massachusetts plans to organize a coalition of Common Core

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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 signatures needed to put the issue before voters in November after lawmakers on Wednesday sent a similar legislative proposal to a study committee, where little action is expected.