Sentences with phrase «against common core»

The fight against Common Core has exposed the failures of those trying to force a federally - based one - size - fits - all curriculum on states and local school districts.

You recently asked me on another thread what I have against Common Core and the federalization of primary and secondary curriculum.

Both math and reading scores declined for first time since the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) took its current form in 1998, according to data released by the National Assessment Governing Board on Wednesday, and Common Core watchers say the many critics of the standards could use the dip as ammunition in their war against the Common Core.

In at least 17 states there is some kind of serious movement against the Common Core standards.

Parents across the nation are rising up against the Common Core testing scheme.

«Then there is the rush to test child against those Common Core Standards despite the fact that sufficient Common Core Curricula has yet to be developed.»

Meanwhile, around the nation, parents, students, teachers, teacher unions and elected officials continue the push back against the Common Core testing scheme.

Lisa Hudson is a founding member of Arizonans Against Common Core and an advocate of classical Christian education and the protection of student privacy.

On Monday, parents in several states mounted a protest against the Common Core that kept children home from school.

Pundits such as Michelle Malkin and Glenn Beck are leading the charge against Common Core, and that effort is spurring action in state capitals.

GW thanks Jennifer Reynolds, publisher of Arizonans Against Common Core for the following list of bills that Bob Worsley helped defeat:

Governor Doug Ducey then entered the picture taking a page from Indiana Governor Pence's save - Common - Core playbook where you claim you're against Common Core yet your actions have the exact opposite effect.

Some of these criticisms have been highlighted in political backlash against the Common Core State Standards, for example.11 Additionally, some critics argue that investments that significantly alter public institutions can create sustainability issues if funders» priorities shift and private support is withdrawn.

The following information was provided by Jennifer Reynolds, publisher of Arizonans Against Common Core.

Tim Curtis, an activist against Common Core, said that thanks to Common Core, «There are over 300 data elements the government is going to be collecting about your children and about you.»

The state's move to remove test scores from teacher ratings came amid growing public outcry against Common Core academic standards used in the state exams.

In the past two weeks, hundreds of thousands of parents across the state staged a parental uprising against the Common Core curriculum and culture of over-utilization of high stakes standardized tests and exercised their right to refuse to have their children take the grades 3 - 8 ELA and math exams.

Constantly changing tests (or using tests as a convenient scapegoat when political blowback against Common Core gets too strong) is a policy response that undermines the goals of standards - based reform in all the ways I have identified above.

As White explains, part of the reason many parents fought so hard against Common Core was the slithering of its tentacles «into every nook and cranny of the education world.»

The fact that we have scored this resounding victory against Common Core testing, before the mass flunking of our students with an invalid test, is a wonderful thing.

Grassroots parent activists battling against the Common Core standards in their individual states say the Trump administration would show it stands up for parental rights by reversing the Obama administration's regulatory gutting of FERPA.

[All three are running for the Republican presidential nomination in a field that has increasing turned against the Common Core.]

I have been invited to testify against the Common Core standards and the Smarter Balanced tests in a politically motivated hearing sponsored by a state politician with views as far from my own as one could possibly imagine.

The Republican revolt against the Common Core can be traced to President Obama's embrace of it, particularly his linking the adoption of similar standards to states» eligibility for federal education grants and to waivers from No Child Left Behind, the national education law enacted by President George W. Bush.

Are teacher unions turning against Common Core?

It was an ambitious initiative that, in subsequent years, fell victim to a political backlash against Common Core and led more than two dozen states to back away from the standards - based tests.

-- In the race for governor, by contrast, both surviving candidates are campaigning against Common Core.

Undoubtedly, the uprising against Common Core (often referred to as «the Core) in the country has not gone unnoticed by President Obama and Secretary of Education Arne Duncan.

Hopefully more Connecticut school administrators will join education leaders like Madison, Connecticut Superintendent Thomas Scarice and stand up, step forward and speak out against the Common Core Smarter Balanced Assessment Test (SBAC), the overuse of standardized testing in Connecticut's public schools and the right of parents to opt - out their children from these unfair, unnecessary, expensive and destructive tests.

Teacher: I am not against Common Core or testing — but here's my line in the sand (Washington Post, 2015) Do New York's ELA exams actually make students WORSE writers?

Cross-posted on Education Week A group of Democratic state senators in Pennsylvania has now joined the revolt against the Common Core State Standards, saying»...

that statement alone just shows the author's bias for Common Core and also just shows how clueless he is about who is fighting against Common Core, and how they are fighting it.

The report's findings — especially the existence of a botnet campaign against Common Core — came as a surprise to some education observers.

The Obama administration, with Race to the Top and the waiver process, decided instead to put their full weight behind the new Common Core State Standards, fund the development of new tests set to those standards, hold teachers individually accountable for the performance of their own students against the Common Core State Standards, implement the new tests and urge states to use teacher evaluations based on test results to fire teachers whose students did not perform satisfactorily.

This is the auditorium of Rockville Centre's South Side High School on Jan. 13, where approximately 120 students, teachers and education advocates witnessed the latest front in what has been an all - out war against Common Core, the education reform created by the National Governors Association and the Council of Chief State School Officers and financed with more than $ 4 billion of «Race to the Top» funds as part of the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

But parents and education activists who have been fighting against the Common Core standards for years now protested Alexander's insistence on pushing through the massive «bipartisan» bill in order to prove Congress could get things done.

Common Core: Education Without Representation started when three moms got together in Utah to speak out against the Common Core.

com: Gov. John Bel Edwards scraps Jindal lawsuit against Common Core http://bit.ly/20dXGBP

The Battle for Culturally Relevant & Developmentally Appropriate Curriculum, and the Fight Against the Common Core

As a teacher in California I am total against the Common Core standards!

Ohioans Against Common Core focuses on issues related to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), CCSS assessments, Race to the Top (RTTT), student privacy and state longitudinal data systems (SLDS).

In addition to the growing social networking tsunami against Common Core, go to Facebook and search «Common Core» where you will find more.

That so many Catholics find it necessary to come out against Common Core State Standards (CCSS) is at first glance puzzling.

Greater Baton Rouge Business Report: A conversation with Kathy Edmonston on the fight against Common Core http://bit.ly/1IQSAJn

While many come together against Common Core State Standards, yesterday's arguing resulted from the same old differences about how to approach reading... phonics or whole -LSB-...]

Alan Hall, speaking to lawmakers last week, held a Bible in his hand as he spoke out against the Common Core.

For all the pushback against the Common Core — a set of standards that outline the content and skills students are expected to master at each grade level — more than 40 states are still on board.

Minnesotans Against Common Core -LRB--RRB-

Wilhoit noted some irony in the against the Common Core State Standards in some state revolves around the mistaken notion that it is part of a federal takeover of education when CCSSO and the National Governors Association started the common core as a reaction to what was seen as a federal overreach in education based in the No Child Left Behind Act and other federal actions.

He has touted the benefits of anti-union legislation, talked of de-emphasizing the regulatory role of the Department of Public Instruction and has come out against Common Core educational standards, an initiative reviled by conservatives but once supported by Holtz.