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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 to Common Core educational standards, sued in federal court to upend a Massachusetts law that bans most surreptitious recording. The group, led by James O'Keefe, named

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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 Joint Committee on Education, as supporters and opponents voiced their opinions on the initiatives to drop national Common Core standards from public schools and lift the state cap

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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. Before his election, Governor Charlie Baker went on record opposing the Common Core national standards. But since he took office, Massachusetts parents have heard barely a word from

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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 Core's standards as the silver bullet that will make all K-12 students college and career ready. This confidence is remarkable for two reasons. First, Common Core&

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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 people connected to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, a major sponsor of Common Core. Since 2010, the year the Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education voted

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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 that a teacher's knowledge of his or her subject area is, so far, the best and only predictor of student achievement. In Massachusetts, common sense guided

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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 aim to marginalize teachings of America's founding principles became public last week, just days before Common Core supporters filed suit in Massachusetts court to stop voters

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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 a fourth clip on the subject earlier this week, this time showing a textbook industry executive in California commenting on how success in his business is dictated by