You Get What You Pay For In NGA
Last year, Governor Paul LePage pulled out of the NGA... or so he thought. The Bangor Daily News reported that LePage pulled the state's membership in the National Governor's Association because they weren't receiving enough benefits for their membership dues to warrant remaining in the association. At the time Maine was paying $60k to belong. One would think that a prestigious group like NGA woul
CCSS is Gates Led Not State Led -Why Care Now?
It is no secret that the Gates Foundation supplied money for the development of Common Core. It is also well known, in the circles of those who really follow common core, that Gates money has also been sprinkled heavily around to promote his direct investment into the standards themselves. Look into any group group touting the wonders of a set of national standards, (PTA, NEA, Fordham, Council O
Local Curriculums Forced to Use Common Core Search Engine
This came in from a mother in Missouri who's high school daughter was frustrated with a class assignment to write an research paper. My daughter told me a story a few weeks ago about doing a research paper for one of her classes this past Spring. (She was a freshman at the time). She was doing her paper on media bias. She told me that it was particularly difficult to do since she had to use th