“Common Core — out,” Trump said, if he’s elected. SARASOTA, Fla. (AP) — Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump bragged about his high standing in the polls, slammed super political action committees and dismissed rivals Marco Rubio and Jeb Bush in a campaign stop Saturday in their home state of Florida. Speaking before thousands who jammed […]
CATHOLIC CHILDREN IN GRAVE DANGER A REPORT ON COMMON CORE IN CATHOLIC SCHOOLS Research and Report
November 10, 2015 by
“At some point our Bishops will wake up to what they have inflicted upon innocent children who are being handed over to the enemy. How far down the road and how many children must be sacrificed to a kind of Molech before the Church steps up to save our children?” – W. Guardiola. “Rejecting Federal […]
Common Core Architect to Keynote National Catholic Education Conference
November 5, 2015 by
The National Catholic Educational Association (NCEA) has announced that Common Core architect David Coleman will keynote the association’s annual convention next March in San Diego, Calif., raising anew concerns that the Catholic association remains devoted to the Common Core standards despite serious concerns about their impact on Catholic schools. This comes soon after the NCEA’s […]
FIGHTING COMMON CORE CONFERENCE – NOV. 7TH PENSACOLA FL
November 5, 2015 by
IMPORTANT NOVEMBER 7TH PENSACOLA AREA CONFERENCE ON FIGHTING COMMON CORE Parents, grandparents, teachers, and citizens from all walks of life and political persuasion are concerned – and rightly so. Common Core and the “Florida Standards” now in place are nearly identical. The tests are costly, they are data mining and […]
Common Core-aligned writing lesson on gun debate fuels claims of political agenda
November 4, 2015 by
Common Core backers are sneaking a social and political agenda into nationalized curriculum, say critics, who now have new ammo in a writing lesson plan for teachers that they say gives a slanted perspective of the gun debate. A study guide dubbed, “The Battle Over Gun Control,” authored by KQED, a northern Californian affiliate of […]
How Academic Standards Promoting Islam Have Invaded America’s Classrooms
November 3, 2015 by
A mindset that has gradually led American parents to leave the education of their children — unchecked — to schools and elitists has spawned controversies such as the promotion of Islam in classrooms and the unpopular Common Core standards. Eruptions have occurred in more states recently over the promotion of Islam – and the downplaying […]
CONCERNS RISING OVER PEARSON, THE COMPANY BEHIND PARCC AND OTHER COMMON CORE TESTS
October 11, 2015 by
Almost 900,000 New Jersey students are taking the Pearson-administered PARCC test in March. Some parents, critics ask if ‘Goliath’ has too much power in assessing N.J. students This year, five million kids in the United States, including New Jersey, will take a new standardized test – the PARCC. Potential new teachers in Pennsylvania will take […]
Advanced Placement US History Battle Worse Than Common Core
October 4, 2015 by
In an exclusive interview with Breitbart News, conservative “culture war” commentator Stanley Kurtz discussed his recent work in reviewing the Advanced Placement U.S. History framework and why he believes this battle is even worse for America than that over the Common Core standards. Kurtz recently disagreed with Wall Street Journal deputy editor Daniel Henninger that […]
New Education Secretary a Big Supporter of Common Core
October 3, 2015 by
John King, former education commissioner for the state of New York, has been tapped by President Obama to head up the Department of Education. King replaces Arne Duncan, who is resigning to go back to Chicago. King was incredibly unpopular in New York for pushing Common Core on school districts. He even enraged the teachers […]
Tennessee School Districts Say Revealing Islam Lessons May Cost ‘Millions,’ Take Too Darn Long
October 1, 2015 by
Dozens and dozens of taxpayer-funded Tennessee school districts are refusing to comply with an open records request from a conservative legal nonprofit seeking materials and documents relevant to the way public schools are teaching Islam — primarily to middle schoolers. The American Center for Law & Justice, a law firm that generally promotes conservative and […]
THE TRAGEDY OF COMMON CORE – EVENT
October 1, 2015 by
A solution driven seminar on November 7th, 2015 from 9AM to 4PM in Fort Walton Beach, FL. Featuring Donna Hearne, Dr Karen Effrem and MerryLynn Gerstenschlager.
The Silent Invasion Of The Western World. US Next?
September 30, 2015 by
We talk of many different disasters to concern ourselves about and prepare for. Some are small, regional disasters, such as hurricanes. Others are nationwide disasters that will change the world as we know it. These disasters are the ones that we focus on, simply because of the great impact that they will have. That impact […]
Did Russia Send an Anti-U.S. Force to Syria?
September 30, 2015 by
MiG-29 jet fighters of the Russian aerobatic team Strizhi (The Swifts) perform during the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2015.,MiG-29 jet fighters of the Russian aerobatic team Strizhi (The Swifts) perform during the MAKS International Aviation and Space Salon in Zhukovsky outside Moscow, Russia, August 30, 2015. […]
SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT ON COMMON CORE
September 28, 2015 by
Pioneer Institute Executive Director Jim Stergios talks about the basis for education reform in Massachusetts, and how that state-driven success model differs from Common Core national education standards. He corrects some of the myths about Common Core, drawing on Pioneer Institute’s extensive research to show that the national standards were not state-led, violate three federal […]
Feds Admit U.S. Education Department ‘Forced’ States To Accept Common Core From Its Start
September 17, 2015 by
President Barack Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan (R) visits with sixth grade students at the Graham Road Elementary School January 19, 2010 in Falls Church, Virginia. Following his meeting with students the President will deliver remarks on his ‘Race to the Top’ program and his request for an additional $1.35 billion in 2011 […]
Allen West: This is a Time of Danger and Division
September 13, 2015 by
“It is ironic that we are about to remember 9/11, both in 2001, and in 2012 with Benghazi on the day the Iran nuclear resolution is being considered by Congress,” former Florida congressman Allen B. West said in an exclusive interview with Breitbart Texas. West also called the refugee migration from the middle east “a […]
Hidden Emails Reveal a Secret Anti-Fossil Fuel Network
September 13, 2015 by
Most of us feel that time goes by faster as we get older. It does. When you are five years old, one year represents 20 percent of your life. Yet, when you are fifty, that same calendar year is only 2 percent of your life—making that single timeframe much smaller. Those of us involved in […]
Special Ed Students To Take General Common Core Assessments
September 12, 2015 by
Texas was one of the few states that said “No” to the Common Core Standards Initiative. Texas developed its own state-mandated assessments (STAAR-End-of-Course), and these satisfied the NCLB requirements. Along with the STAAR/EOC’s, Texas also developed its own alternative assessments to test students with disabilities. The development of these alternative assessments took years of time, […]
Are Local Police to Blame?
September 11, 2015 by
Harlem (1964). Watts (1965). East Coast, West Coast. A police shooting and an attempted arrest provide the pretexts for days of massive rioting, looting, arson, death, and destruction. Racism and police brutality, say the rioters/looters (and their supporters in political office, the media, and academia), are responsible for the violence and devastation. The Harlem riots […]
Mark Meadows Launches Mission to Fix Broken Congress and Remove Boehner
September 6, 2015 by
MORGANTON, North Carolina — Speaker Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) 35%’s worst nightmare is on the rise here in rural North Carolina. Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) 96% is gaining steam as a clearly coordinated, highly orchestrated effort to remove Boehner as Speaker of the United States House of Representatives—and fix a broken Congress that no longer […]
Common Core Standards = “New World Order” for America
September 1, 2015 by
There is a Crisis, perhaps you heard: American education is a disaster. Scores are awful, America is slipping. Students are not ready to work. More money is needed. Standards are not high enough. Look at the other countries, America is 37th. Let’s Find Someone to Blame: Teachers Class size Lengthen school day, school year Not […]
Only 1/4 of Public School Parents Support Common Core, Poll Finds
August 26, 2015 by
A new PDK/Gallup poll shows little nationwide enthusiasm for Common Core with only a quarter of public school parents supporting the unpopular education initiative. The poll shows a backlash against increasing trends among educational bureaucrats to emphasize standardized testing. In 1970, three-quarters of parents enthusiastically supported national testing. According to the study, fourteen percent of […]
COMMON CORE INDOCTRINATES OUR CHILDREN
August 25, 2015 by
Author and former educator Charlotte Iserbyt spoke with the electricity of a spark plug about how the American school system purposely indoctrinates our children into robot servants of the system. Learn about why charter schools are not a good idea. Learn more about Charlotte Iserbyt and her book The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: http://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/…
OBAMA’S “COMMUNITY SCHOOLS” AIM TO REPLACE PARENTS
August 15, 2015 by
Lawmakers and the Obama administration are plotting to unconstitutionally commandeer local schools and turn them into “full-service community schools” — government centers that will usurp vast new responsibilities over children that have traditionally been handled by parents and families. Under the plan, adopted in the Senate last month as part of a massive “education bill” […]
In September 2015, Agenda 21 Will Be Transformed Into The 2030 Agenda
August 14, 2015 by
United Nations – Public Domain If you didn’t like “Agenda 21″, then you really are not going to like “The 2030 Agenda”. Next month, the United Nations is going to launch “The 2030 Agenda” at a major conference that will be held from September 25th to September 27th in New York City. The Pope is […]
White House was ‘grateful’ to Jeb Bush for helping with Common Core, says former Obama aide
August 11, 2015 by
This can’t be a tweet that Jeb Bush is going to like. Daniel Pfeiffer, a former senior advisor to President Obama for strategy and communications, expressed the White House’s gratitude to the former two-term Florida governor on Thursday, the day of the GOP presidential contender debates were held in Cleveland. For what? For supporting the […]
An Interview with Governor Greg Abbott on Common Core
August 10, 2015 by
At RedState Gathering in Atlanta on Friday, Texas Governor Greg Abbott sat down with PJ Media to talk about education. Abbott, who was a featured speaker at the conservative confab, weighed in on Common Core, the role of the federal government in education, and the effects of illegal immigration on Texas schools. As an added […]
Jeb Bush And The Common Core Debacle
August 9, 2015 by
During the first round of the 2016 GOP presidential debates, Jeb Bush was pressured by the moderators to explain his history of pushing for Common Core implementation across the country. In his statement, Bush said: “I don’t believe the federal government should be involved in the creation of standards directly or indirectly, the creation of […]
Parental Awakening Offers Hope Against Common Core, Expert Says
August 5, 2015 by
While the battle may get depressing, there is hope when it comes to crushing the deeply unpopular Common Core standards and what they represent, says a prominent educator who for years has been travelling the nation warning about the Obama administration-backed takeover of education. That hope is concerned parents — mothers and fathers waking up […]
Planned Parenthood asks: ‘Why is it that sex ed isn’t a part of the Common Core?’
July 31, 2015 by
Planned Parenthood is pulling out all the stops to ensure that its “comprehensive sex education” is required in schools for children beginning in Kindergarten. Planned Parenthood was, in fact, a hidden partner in the writing of the National Sexuality Education Standards put together by the Future of Sex Education coalition, as American Life League has […]