Tag Archives: Common Core State Standards

On Saturday May 18th, The Wake-Up Republican Women’s Club of Guilford County presents a free symposium: “Common Core Educational Standards: What You Should Know.” Speakers from the John Locke Foundation (me), The Cato Institute, Guilford County Board of Commissioners and nationally recognized experts on testing.  Special lunch guest: Congressman Howard Coble. The event begins atContinue Reading

The following is a video created by the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools to promote the Common Core State Standards.  Apparently, getting correct answers in math class and needing paper and pencil to solve a math problem is bad.

Superintendent of Public Instruction June Atkinson blogs about her direct involvement in the development of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), There are some who are making wild claims about the Common Core and what it is. I can tell you, because I was there at its very beginning, that it is not an effortContinue Reading

If you watched The Master’s on Sunday, you may have seen an ExxonMobile commercial for the Common Core State Standards.  According to the ExxonMobile website, ExxonMobil supports the efforts of local educators in 45 states who, along with community and business leaders, have come together to develop voluntary, rigorous Common Core State Standards in mathContinue Reading

North Carolina has adopted common standards for English language arts and mathematics.  Could science be next?  The Next Generation Science Standards propose common science standards.  Of course, science is much more controversial than English and math. Here are a few of the more controversial bits on climate change: [Disciplinary Core Idea] ESS3.D: Global Climate Change:Continue Reading

Michelle Malkin’s commentary today talks about the massive database tracking that comes along with those states invested in the Common Core Standards. These systems will aggregate massive amounts of personal data — health-care histories, income information, religious affiliations, voting status and even blood types and homework completion. The data will be available to a wideContinue Reading

In an N&O op-ed, Jennifer Lovejoy and Susanne Werner of the Secular Coalition for North Carolina argue, Senate Bill 138, offering high school elective courses in Bible studies, is problematic for many reasons: It likely will not be implemented as intended and the costs of adequate implementation have not been addressed at all. The endContinue Reading

Over the last few weeks I talked with parents  who are ready to pull out their hair trying to help their elementary child with math homework.  It all became understandable when I read Mark Rice’s (a college professor and father), experience with his 8-year-old daughter: My daughter — a bright, fun-loving 8-year-old who isn’t easilyContinue Reading