New Hampshire House Defeats Common Core Repeal Vote
The New Hampshire House of Representatives voted against HB 1508 that would have removed the Common Core from the state. The vote was actually whether or not to approve the House Education Committee report. The New Hampshire Education Committee voted against the bill.Ann Marie Banfield provided a report:In spite of some heroic efforts by several legislators, HB 1508 which would have terminated C
Common Core Repeal Bill Clears Oklahoma Senate Committee
The Oklahoma Senate Education committee cleared HB 3399 Monday. The bill would repeal the Common Core in Oklahoma in lieu of new standards being written in math and English Language Arts by the State Board of Education by August 1, 2015. An assessment aligned to those standards is required to be implemented by the 2017-2018 school year.Randy Ellis in The Oklahoman writes that the bill passed on
A Compelling Reason to Oppose Common Core
I’m not a Diane Ravitch fan. She and I are in disagreement on most things, but further proof that the Common Core has made for some strange bedfellows I think she’s spot on here.They were written in a manner that violates the nationally and international recognized process for writing standards. The process by which they were created was so fundamentally flawed that these “standards” should have no legitimacy.Setting national academic standards is not something done in stealth by a small group of people, funded by one source, and imposed by the lure of a federal grant in a time of austerity.There is a recognized protocol for writing standards, and the Common Core standards failed to comply with that protocol.
Very true. I would add they were not seriously vetted by the states either.