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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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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 had…
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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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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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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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Second Common Core video released as Mass. considers dumping the federal standards
BOSTON – A second undercover video portraying Common Core as an exercise in profiteering by publishers including Boston textbook giant Houghton Mifflin Harcourt…