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Were Common Core’s ELA Standards written by charlatans? Sure seems so. 

Were Common Core’s ELA Standards written by charlatans? Sure seems so. 

Sandra Stotsky

To bypass statutes forbidding the federal government to develop national standards, two private organizations—the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)—in coordination with Achieve, Inc., a private organization established by the NGA and business officials in 1996, agreed to develop Common Core's standards. Expenses for managing the project were defrayed by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, another private organization. In the absence of information from all these private organizations, it seems that Achieve, Inc. and the Gates Foundation selected most of the key personnel to write the standards. We do not know why.

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Study: Breast, ovarian cancer may be linked in origin
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Study: Breast, ovarian cancer may be linked in origin

Kara Bettis

BOSTON – Breast cancer and ovarian cancer may have similar origins, according to a study published last month in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences by Boston University School of Medicine researchers.

"Though breast and ovarian cancer are distinctly clinically different, our analysis uncovered many overlaps, particularly with respect to genetic and epigenetic alterations," said Dr. Sibaji Sarkar, an instructor of medicine at Boston University School of Medicine and an author of the study, referring to a process in which genetically identical cells express their genes differently, causing different outcomes.

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