The president’s proposal, called Preschool For All, would make another $20.9 million available to California for home-visiting programs. The programs send nurses, social workers or other professionals t   ... read more

Educators from the US and beyond: please share your teaching stories with Mr. Bill Gates. How have their policies influenced your classroom, your students, your teaching, your schools, and your communities?

Forget that curriculum experts hardly all agree with this assertion. Then, it says that the standards were "developed by states" when, in fact, they were not: the National Governors Association and Council o   ... read more

Indeed, the first wave of exams was so overwhelming for these young New Yorkers that some parents refused to let their children take the test.

Privacy concerns are growing among parents, educators and some state officials about a Gates Foundation-funded project that is storing an unprecedented amount of personal information about millions of s   ... read more

The Texas House of Representatives voted 140-2 to pass language prohibiting Texas from participating in the Common Core State Standards. Only two votes against it. Incredible. The bill, HB 462, was s   ... read more

But behind the high-profile back and forth over specific policies and prescriptions lies a story that has less to do with ideas than with money, less to do with facts than with an ideological subtext t   ... read more

Common Core State Standards are nothing without the tests/assessments. The proponents speak to how great the standards are but usually know little or nothing about the tests that are "being developed".    ... read more

Joy Pullmann at School Reform News wrote an excellent piece that helps to further demonstrate that the Common Core State Standards were not state-led. While there were many people who served on various c   ... read more

A Michigan state senator, Republican Tom McMillan, joined lawmakers across the country trying to stop the new academic standards when he successfully added language to the state budget last week that d   ... read more

Little known to the public are changes in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act in 2011 by the Education Department. The changes allow for the release of student records for non-academic purposes. P   ... read more

Crayola joins the list of big name education companies who have sold out our children and America to the United Nations' global agenda.

inBloom, the non-profit started with a hundred million dollar investment from the Gates Foundation, is planning to create a digital record which, barring catastrophe, truly could be a permanent record o   ... read more

The problem they have is that the substance of the Tea Party criticism of Common Core standards is solid. And it aligns pretty well with what many of us a bit more to the left have been saying for years. L   ... read more

Instead of dealing with the real problem, the Common Core offers us, in the words of Common Core opponent Susan Ohanian, "a radical untried curriculum overhaul and ... nonstop national testing."

CSCOPE, a controversial school curriculum management system in Texas that once included a description of the Boston Tea Party as an act of terror and has called Islamic terrorists freedom fighters, is w   ... read more

Sadly, but not surprisingly, instead of improving education by repealing No Child Left Behind's testing and other mandates, the Obama administration is increasing national control over schools via the "   ... read more

We must fix the failures of No Child Left Behind. We must provide the funding we were promised, give our states the resources they need and finally meet our commitment to special education. We also need t   ... read more

The backlash is richly deserved. The Common Core standards are academically inferior to the standards they replaced in high performing states; and they ignore empirical lessons of how states like Massachusetts a   ... read more

All but four states have adopted the complete Common Core Standards. Those four states- Texas, Virginia, Alaska, and Nebraska - have been slow to warm to the uniform, but divisive, national standards f   ... read more

Students, parents, and teachers who are anxious or merely curious about the coming online assessments matched to the Common Core State Standards will now have the opportunity to go through a test run o   ... read more

Common Core recycles a decades-old, top-down approach to education. Its roots are in a letter sent to Hillary Clinton by Marc Tucker, president of the National Center on Education and the Economy, after B   ... read more

LANSING -- Hours after a conference committee approved a measure prohibiting the Michigan Department of Education from spending funds on implementing national Common Core State Standards for mathematics a   ... read more

The board's concerns revolved around the pending Common Core State Standards, which are national standards for math and language arts adopted by Oregon and 47 other states. During the public comment t   ... read more

The nation's eyes are on Indiana as it reconsiders the Common Core academic standards that are supposed to raise student achievement and standardize what children learn across the country. The operative w   ... read more

Between the two sides of the Common Core debate, proponents of Common Core have consistently failed the first test of any new government program -- follow the money.

But as the common core shifts from theory to reality, critics are emerging. State lawmakers are concerned about the cost, which the Fordham Institute estimated could run as high as $12 billion nationally. P   ... read more

Tea party groups over the past few weeks have suddenly and successfully pressured Republican governors to reassess their support for a rare bipartisan initiative backed by President Obama to overhaul t   ... read more

(Reuters) - A $100 million database set up to store extensive records on millions of public school students has stumbled badly since its launch this spring, with officials in several states backing away f   ... read more

The multinational software giant, Microsoft, once bundled its Explorer search engine with Windows, and refused, for a time, to have Windows run WordPerfect, a competitor to Microsoft Word. As head of M   ... read more

Two competing forces are pushing on America's K–12 education system today. One is an effort to infuse education choice into a long-stagnant system, empowering parents with the ability to send their child t   ... read more

Is the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO) writing common core state standards for social studies or not' They say they aren't, but it appears they are. They are playing this one closer to t   ... read more

In the 10-minute video, entitled "In Pursuit of Happiness," fourth grade teacher Ellie Rubenstein addresses the transfers and "false accusations" that have been leveled against some teachers in the school. S   ... read more

Teachers, their unions under attack, are becoming as replaceable as minimum-wage employees at Burger King. We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire children to think, those who help the y   ... read more

Over the past several weeks, a growing array of reports regarding the opposition to the Common Core and high stakes testing have appeared. Recently, Buffalo's WIVB did this report, which is one of the b   ... read more

What most people don’t know is that with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), the New York State Education Department (NYSED) has instituted a provision to limit the speech o   ... read more

What most people don’t know is that with the adoption of the Common Core State Standards Initiative (CCSSI), the New York State Education Department (NYSED) has instituted a provision to limit the speech o   ... read more

We are drawing close to the end of the state legislative sessions. I thought it would be a good time to highlight the progress that has been made in fighting the Common Core. If you look back just a f   ... read more

A handful of states (including Indiana, Alabama, South Dakota and Georgia) are either pulling back or considering it, and core supporters fear more states will too. A growing number of educators are c   ... read more

Working behind the scenes, implementing these policies and writing the standards are associates from President Obama's community organizing days. In de facto control of the education component is Linda D   ... read more

THOUGH THE EFFICACY of standardized testing has been hotly debated for decades, one thing has become crystal clear: It's big business.

Just think. Children's lives; teachers' careers and reputations; and the fate of the school hinge on snap judgment made by people reading these essays, scoring as many as possible in an hour.

The reading list for Language Arts, History, Social Studies includes readings from and on the United States Constitution. At first blush, it sounds wonderful that our students will study the Constitution.    ... read more

Anthony Cody has posted an interesting (and chilling) vision of the future of education, predicting that by 2018 all teaching will be strictly controlled, with frequent testing, classes monitored and t   ... read more

The federal initiative moves towards the establishment of national, rather than state-by-state curriculum standards. It has been promoted by the Obama administration and bankrolled by various corporate i   ... read more

A kindergarten teacher in California, spoke with the WSWS about the impact of the Common Core curriculum and testing regime on students and educators.

The "new paradigm" is communism, and one world government. Is this what you want for your country? Witness this lesson which we can only call "Saul Alinsky for babies". It's pure child abuse.

Ellie Rubenstein has had enough. Upon learning that she would be involuntarily transferred to another Illinois school, the former fourth-grade teacher submitted her resignation in the form of a video

South Dakota state Rep. Jim Bolin, a retired teacher, introduced two bills to limit Common Core national education standards. Both failed by narrow votes in March. Bolin sees the standards, which were a   ... read more

A component to Governor Jerry Brown’s May revision of the 2013-2014 proposed budget is allocating $1 billion to improve Common Core State Standards in California schools. The Legislative Analyst’s Office (   ... read more

The political pushback on the common core has reached Kansas, it seems, where a Republican lawmaker has inserted language into a budget bill that would prevent the state from spending any money on implementation o   ... read more

MADISON - Critics of national education standards adopted three years ago in Wisconsin packed an informational hearing on Wednesday that was called by two legislative committees to examine the issue.

The Senate Education Committee on Wednesday advanced a resolution that calls on state education officials to stop implementation of the Common Core standards, which have been adopted in 45 states and a   ... read more

MADISON, Wis. - Education standards adopted in Wisconsin and 44 other states are either a rigorous benchmark that will improve student performance, or they're a dangerous intrusion on local control masterminded b   ... read more

I believe they are partly a ploy by major publishers and media companies to sell new material to schools that is actually the same old stuff marketed with different labels.

Teachers and principals in New York have expressed strong concerns about the new high-stakes standardized tests supposedly aligned with the Common Core State Standards that were recently given to students a   ... read more

Although Common Core state standards for public schools were adopted in Wisconsin back in 2010, they by no means have been readily accepted by groups with an interest in education. That was vividly a   ... read more

In a recent interview Rhee suggested to proponents of CCSS to switch up the argument "The federal government is trying to stick something down your throat" with "This is about China kicking our butts. D   ... read more

Marietta English says district's teachers are not fully prepared for high-stakes testing. The Baltimore Teacher's Union has called for the district hold off on attaching penalties to schools' performance o   ... read more

Whether or not you're the parent of a child in school, you have undoubtedly heard about the uproar surrounding the Common Core tests. They are mandatory for every child in public school in New York State. An O   ... read more