The national news media haven't discovered it, but the issue that is bringing out hundreds of citizens who never before attended political meetings is Common Core (CC). More precisely, it is the attempt of Barack Obama's Department of Education to force all states and schools to adopt specified national education standards for each grade level that will dictate what all kids learn and don't … [Read more...]

Recently, I met a remarkable woman who has accomplished an extraordinary work in her mission toward educating the American people of a clear and present danger to their children and the methods by which said danger can be stopped. This lady’s accomplishments speak for themselves. Christina Michas is the Founder and Leader of the Palm Springs Patriots Coalition and President, Eagle Forum Palm … [Read more...]

The Common Core Standards and related assessments being implemented in Florida have many problems including lack of rigor and transparency; loss of state, local, family, and teacher autonomy, as well as loss of data privacy; and high costs that will be borne by the state and counties analogously to the proposed Medicaid expansion.  The citizens of Florida and their elected representatives on … [Read more...]

What is Common Core Standards?  Common Core and aligned assessments violate three Federal Statutes. Student-tracking system collects personally identifiable data. Tests designed by Progressive reformers. Bill Ayers and the late George Soros are one of the people that are behind Common Core. See the videos. … [Read more...]

Despite the fact that the Republican National Committee has listened to the grassroots and moved towards freedom in education and student privacy by unanimously adopting an anti-Common Core resolution, the Florida Legislature has moved in the completely opposite direction.   The education appropriations bill, SB 1076 that implements the Common Core standards and aligned assessments passed the … [Read more...]

  Last chance: Domenic snatched by armed Swedish police 4 years ago Bob Unruh joined WND in 2006 after nearly three decades with the Associated Press, as well as several Upper Midwest newspapers, where he covered everything from legislative battles and sports to tornadoes and homicidal survivalists. He is also a photographer whose scenic work has been used commercially. Swedish … [Read more...]

Kyle Stokes on Instagram / StateImpact Indiana A screenshot of dueling Common Core hashtags on Twitter. Opponents of the standards held a "rally" on social media Tuesday, using the hashtag #StopCommonCore. Some who support the Common Core responded with Tweets labeled #SupportTheCore. Debate over the future of the Common Core academic standards lit up Twitter on Tuesday as skeptical … [Read more...]

In September, throughout the United States, school started as usual.  But in some school systems, the lunch line had changed.  In a Maryland district, for example, instead of paying for lunch with bills and change, students now must scan their palms in order to pay for their French fries and chocolate milk. Not everyone is happy with the new system.  Indeed, some parents have had their … [Read more...]

Liberal education has been very successful in this country because nobody challenged the progressive educators and their agenda. We are waking up to the unraveling of our society caused by this liberal education and wondering, what happened. Could it be too late to reverse the damage? Conservative news outlets are pointing out the obvious—our children have been indoctrinated into socialism … [Read more...]

LOS ANGELES - The concerns about the federal Common Core curriculum and the national standards it would impose on local schools reached the level of the Republican National Committee Friday and was passed unanimously.  Illinois RNC National Committeewoman Demetra DeMonte said she was happy to co-sponsor the resolution and encourage others to support the effort. The RNC resolution reads in … [Read more...]

The nation’s leading homeschooling organization is warning parents that the federal government is advancing its aim of identifying and tracking students throughout their school careers, from birth through college graduation. In an online statement, William Estrada, director of federal relations for the Home School Legal Defense Association, acknowledged statistics on student achievement are … [Read more...]

The words are written in crayon, in the haphazard bumpiness of a child’s scrawl. “I am willing to give up some of my constitutional rights in order to be safer or more secure.” They’re the words that Florida father Aaron Harvey was stunned to find his fourth-grade son had written, after a lesson in school about the Constitution. Editor’s note: ​The school district has said a … [Read more...]

Where shall we begin? Let’s start with the “state-led” and “voluntary” claims: Common Core was not developed by the states but rather by a DC-based nonprofit called Achieve, Inc., under the auspices of the National Governors Association (NGA) and the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO). Neither NGA nor CCSSO (which are merely trade associations with private membership … [Read more...]

As a greater level of scrutiny is being placed on the controversial curriculum systems CSCOPE (in Texas) and Common Core Standards (nationwide), concerned parents spoke to TheBlaze about their troubling experiences, revealing that not even home-schooling is beyond the reach of these encroaching systems. Home-schooling not beyond the reach of Common Core?   Keven Card, a former Marine from … [Read more...]

In the late seventies, Americans were very proud and fiercely protective of their freedoms granted by the Constitution, of the United States, and of their standing in the world as a capitalist nation. Just the mere notion that someone came from a communist country raised eyebrows and pointed questions about one’s allegiance. Then on October 17, 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed into law the … [Read more...]

As part of the government’s initiative to institute Common Core standards for education, so comes a system that would mine information about students to establish best practices for effective teaching. But some think the technology that would conduct the mining crosses a line. Glenn Beck spoke of the “indoctrination” of the Common Core and data mining that goes along with it on his … [Read more...]

Many young people lose their religious faith and their conservative beliefs to moral radicalism when they get to college. There is a relentless and sustained attack on their values as soon as they enter their dorm room. Some kids can handle the attacks but many can’t. They fall for the moral relativism lie, except, of course, when it comes to people who do not believe in moral relativism. It’s … [Read more...]

A South Florida college professor’s bizarre classroom antics have made waves for their shocking display of religious intolerance. But they were even more instructive in educating the rest of us on the alarming thought process of yet another Palm Beach County Democratic leader. Florida Atlantic University professor Deandre Poole instructed his intercultural communications class earlier this … [Read more...]