The philosophy in the school room in one generation will become the philosophy of government in the next. — Abraham Lincoln [A]t the request of educators I wrote the World Core Curriculum, the product of the United Nations, the meta-organism of human and planetary evolution. — Robert Muller, former U.N. Assistant Secretary General The education […]
Student Data Tied To Common Core Off-Limits To Parents
July 13, 2014 by
States that were awarded grants from President Obama’s Race to the Top (RttT) stimulus bill program agreed to implement the Common Core standards and to comply with the “Four Assurances,” one of which was the requirement of “Building data systems that measure student growth and success.” The problem? Private student data is off-limits to parents. […]
Common Core and the EduTech abyss
June 27, 2014 by
The Common Core gold rush is on. Apple, Pearson, Google, Microsoft and Amplify are all cashing in on the federal standards/testing/textbook racket. But the EduTech boondoggle is no boon for students. It’s more squandered tax dollars down the public school drain. Even more worrisome: The stampede is widening a dangerous path toward invasive data mining. […]
University of Chicago High School Instructor: Gates Bought Control of U.S. Education
June 20, 2014 by
Common Core supporters like to paint Common Core adversaries as conspiracy theorists who wear tin foil hats. Paul Horton is opposed to Common Core, and he is a University of Chicago Laboratory High School history instructor. Last year Mr. Horton spoke at The Report Card’s Dare to Think history summit and warned of the dangers […]
How Bill Gates pulled off the swift Common Core revolution
June 20, 2014 by
Microsoft billionaire Bill Gates is taking heat from education groups, which say the Gates Foundation’s philanthropic support comes with strings attached. Here, he responds to his critics in an interview with The Washington Post’s Lyndsey Layton. The pair of education advocates had a big idea, a new approach to transform every public-school classroom in America. […]