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Your Common Core assignment of the day: Maybe the Holocaust was a ‘propaganda tool’
A catastrophic failure of critical thinking by the designers of a course on critical thinking.
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Bureaucrats try to quash Common Core test opt-outs
Forcing kids to test.
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Get to know the Common Core marketing overlords
They’re everywhere.
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Indiana’s attempt to replace Common Core under fire
Gov. Mike Pence and his staff are delaying the rewrite process.
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Why parents are ‘paranoid’ about Common Core
When politicians want to evade accountability, they go on the attack.
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Obama the populist?
Not in education.
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School choice and Common Core: Mortal enemies
Coerced conformity kills choice.
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Feds spend millions to promote Common Core
Professional communications teams!
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The US Chamber of Commerce versus America
Always beware of Washington business-boosters wearing false free-market facades.
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Democrats’ failure factories
If Democrats want to get serious about equality of opportunity, they can start by putting kids ahead of union bosses.
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Doubts over Common Core
If you like your local control of education, can you keep it?
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Common Core and the EduTech Abyss
Tech companies cash in on the Common Core gold rush, but this boondoggle is no boon for students.
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Common Core
Common Core is a one-size-fits-all government monopoly.
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Is Common Core “rigorous,” or more nearly the opposite?
It depends what the meaning of “rigorous” is.
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No, Arne Duncan, ‘white suburban moms’ aren’t the problem; You are
Does centralizing education allow Washington to destroy local autonomy?
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Phyllis Schlafly hopes conservatives can stop Obamacare, Common Core
“It’s a train wreck.”
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Tom Pauken: No more Common Core
Texans tried Common Core for more than a decade and found it very wanting
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How NOT to argue with parents about Common Core
If we don’t do it, who will?
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Jeb Bush says: State-driven Common Core is least we can do to accelerate student learning
We should not be debating whether to move backwards.
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Education’s shiny toy syndrome
Public education bureaucrats do the darnedest, stupidest things.
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