Common Core supporters have organized a coalition in Arizona to recall newly elected state school superintendent Diane Douglas, who ran primarily an anti-Common Core campaign.
According to Capitol Media Services, the Coalition to Recall Diane Douglas has filed with the Arizona Secretary of State’s office. Maxwell Goshert, the group’s treasurer, said he predicts this initial step will ultimately lead to Douglas’ ouster within a year.
Nevertheless, Douglas must be in office for six months prior to recall signature collection. The state’s constitution also requires the coalition to collect the signatures of 25 percent of the people who voted in the most recent gubernatorial election to permit a recall vote, or, approximately 367,000 signatures. Common Core really stinks. Read more here.
Parents, legislators push back against Common Core
New standardized tests under the Common Core education initiative aren’t scheduled until spring, but backlash from parents and educators is in full force this fall. And the debate is moving into the state legislatures.
States’ adoption of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a set of K-12 learning standards designed to measure students’ college and career readiness, has been met with resistance. Common Core really stinks. Read more here.
Common Core Drives Families to Homeschool Education
More parents are removing their children from traditional school environments and are choosing to homeschool them instead due to increased concern over the use of the Common Core standards. The Heartlander reported earlier this month that in the state of North Carolina homeschooling increased by 14 percent during the last academic year as the controversial Common Core standards grew to be more of a concern for parents. Common Core really stinks. Read more here.
Common Core Educrats Sieze Control
| Title: Title I–Improving the Academic Achievement of the Disadvantaged | |
| Abstract: The Secretary will amend the regulations governing title I, part A of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA), to phase out the authority of States to define modified academic achievement standards and develop alternate assessments based on those modified academic achievement standards in order to satisfy ESEA accountability requirements. These amendments will permit, as a transitional measure, States that meet certain criteria to continue to administer alternate assessments based on modified academic achievement standards and include the results in accountability determinations, subject to limitations on the number of proficient scores that may be counted, for a limited period of time. Common Core really stinks. Read it here. |
The Dog Ate My Common Core Homework
Common Core math has been the discussion of many frustrated parents and the cause of many shed tears over homework. More than one post from an angry parent has made its way to the internet over a difficult or impossible homework assignment. These rants are not limited to those who are under-educated, in fact, several have been posted by parents who hold advanced degrees in one of the STEM fields. Yet, Common Core advocates have decided the fix for these woes is to have parents go back to school to learn how to help their elementary kids with their homework. Seems logical… Read more here.
The Scoring of Common Core Tests is Unrealistic
Valerie Strauss has a fascinating column about the scoring of the Smarter Balanced assessment. It appears that the achievement levels mirror the levels on NAEP. Understanding the scoring process is not easy. Apparently only the students in the top two levels will be considered “college-ready,” as befits a very rigorous curriculum. This means that less than half of the 11th grade students will be on track to go to college. In terms of mathematics, only one-third will be college-ready. The scoring ends with the rather ominous statement that Smarter Balance has not yet figured out a scoring guide for “career readiness.” Since there is so little in the Common Core that is related to career readiness, this is understandable. Very likely, the students who are involved in career and technical education will be in the lower bands and won’t be eligible to go to college.
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Common Core: Parents aren’t allowed to see own children’s tests.
WHITE PLAINS – The main message from a panel of city educators who railed against standardized testing Thursday evening was this: Write your state and federal legislators and demand change. Do it today. Don’t wait.
Common Core Test Group Projects Widespread Failure
One of the two major groups designing standardized tests aligned with Common Core has released how students are expected to score on its inaugural exam next spring, and its prediction isn’t pretty.
According to anticipated score distributions announced by the Smarter Balanced testing consortium, almost two-thirds of students taking the test next year will fall below proficiency in mathematics, while nearly six in 10 will fail to measure up in English. Common Core really stinks! Read more here.
Teachers Running From Common Core Standardized Testing
Karen Hendren and Nikki Jones are highly regarded first-grade teachers at Skelly Elementary School in Tulsa, Oklahoma. They wrote an open letter to the parents of the children in their classes that explains why they have decided not to administer a standardized test known as the MAP Measures of Academic Progress or student surveys that they believe violate students’ privacy. Common Core really stinks! Read it here.
The Common Core: A Trojan Horse to Unseat American Education
American families are on the war path…they have seen, close up and personal, their children struggling with the craziness of Common Core math and the anti-American pro-muslim US history text, History Alive!, data mining to gather personal information on students and families, as well as biometrics such as iris, DNA and other markers. The “Healthy Kids” sex survey for middle school students is of particular concern to parents, who feel the family’s prerogatives are being trampled by these intrusive inappropriate vulgar and overreaching questions sanctioned by the feds.
Common Core really stinks! Read more here.
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