National Review: Common Core Marks Return to Mathematical Ignorance
David G. Bonagura’s column which details Common Core’s serious flaws in it’s math standards is the second anti-Core piece the conservative daily National Review has published this week. Writes Bonagura: The problem with Common Core is not that it provides standards, but that, despite its claims, there is a particular pedagogy that accompanies the standards. And this pedagogy is flawed, for, just
Pro School Choice Think-Tank Rips Florida’s “Tweak” to Common Core
Robert Holland is Senior Fellow for Education Policy at the Heartland Institute in Chicago. He pens the following letter-to-the-editor in the Bradenton Herald: The Florida Department of Education’s proposed revisions to the so-called Common Core State Standards amount to a little more than a public relations ploy, but not much more (Herald, “Florida schools officials propose 98 changes to Common C
Why it Will Be Main Stream Republicans – And Not the Tea Party – Which Will Sink Common Core
Its was easy for everyone to dismiss the early opposition to Common Core Standards as crack-pot tea party stuff when it came from Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck. To be sure, the references to communism were over-the-top, but the arguments based on concerns regarding federal control and data sharing still have merit. The early surge of opposition did indeed come from tea party groups but it was moc
1-16-14 Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida
Scathing Purple Musings | Color me purple in Florida, red in Washington, dark sky-blue in Israel and public school in Education: Gary Chartrand’s Irreconcilable Conflicts of InterestThis week’s report that the Jacksonville Public Education Fund is proposing a new school grade formula marks the second time the think tank founded and financed by chairman of Florida’s board of education, Gary Chartra