Tag Archives: Common Core
How Trump’s 1776 Commission Can End America’s Zombie Education Apocalypse
The 1776 Commission and the executive order signed by the president of the United States are the last things being discussed right now, and understandably so. However, the 1776 Commission is more than what meets the eye. The executive order is committed to restoring an education about the founding of our nation to the frontline of the information war: our nation's schools.
Posted in Education
Tagged Common Core, The 1619 Project, The 1776 Commission
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Larry Burkett Was Right–About A Lot of Things
If you remember the late, great financial teacher Larry Burkett, your life is likely the better for it. I worked with Larry for several years in his Gainesville, Georgia headquarters of Christian Financial Concepts (and continued to work for the organization from home for many years after my children started coming along). In my mind, he ranks right up there with some of our Founding Fathers in his wisdom, love for this country, and amazing foresight in economic and political issues.
Posted in Education, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Common Core, debt, economy, healthcare, Larry Burkett, Michelle Fitzpatrick Thomas, The Coming Economic Earthquake
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Common Core: School Test Scores Are Nosediving
In 2013 Michael Cohen of Achieve, Inc. (an organization integral to developing and marketing the Common Core national standards) testified in New York that Common Core is a long-term education experiment on our children: “The full effects… won’t be seen until an entire cohort of students, from kindergarten through high school graduation, has been effectively exposed to Common Core teaching.” Four years later we may not be seeing the full effects, but heaven help us when we get there.
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Tagged betsy devos, Bluegrass Institute in Kentucky, Common Core, David Coleman, Emmett McGroarty, Jane Robbins, Jason Zimba, Progress in International Reading Literacy Study, Richard Innes, Sue Pimentel
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Decentralizing Education in America
American education has become more and more centralized over the past 100 years. While this consolidation is associated with a great deal of expense, there has been little evidence that it has improved outcomes. Instead, the evidence points to, but does not yet prove, that decentralizing education offers more benefits, first in outcomes, and second in lower cost.
Posted in Education
Tagged Common Core, Federal Education, Home Education, Jay P. Greene
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Every 12 Years: A Review of the Book ‘Saving K-12’ (Part One)
Every 12 years another set of children progress through America’s government-run school system. Those that graduated this past spring started twelve years before that as first-graders in 2005.
In 2005 I had the honor of serving as the president of the Family Taxpayers Foundation (FTF), a non-profit focusing chiefly on school reform -- both curriculum and finance…a to z, soup to nuts.
Posted in Education
Tagged Bruce Deitrick Price, Common Core, government schools, Jack Roeser, k-12 education
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Most College Students Think America Invented Slavery
For 11 years, Professor Duke Pesta gave quizzes to his students at the beginning of the school year to test their knowledge on basic facts about American history and Western culture.
The most surprising result from his 11-year experiment? Students’ overwhelming belief that slavery began in the United States and was almost exclusively an American phenomenon, he said.
Posted in Education
Tagged A People’s History of the United States, Common Core, Duke Pesta, Howard Zinn, Slavery, The College Fix, Thomas Jefferson
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Homeschooling, the Feds, and You
Recently, US Secretary of Education John King, while speaking at a press conference, remarked that although some homeschool situations are just fine, in general, “Students who are homeschooled are not getting kind of the rapid instructional experience they would get in school.”
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Tagged Common Core, Department of Education, George W. Bush, Home Education, homeschooling, Jimmy Carter, Joe Kelly, John King, Lindsey Burke, No Child Left Behind
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2 Special IFI Forums With Dr. Duke Pesta
We have scheduled to bring in Dr. Duke Pesta, a nationally renown expert on the dangers of Common Core, to head up special forums in Springfield and Collinsville.
Posted in Education, IFI News
Tagged Common Core, Dr. Duke Pesta, Education Standards
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Common Core: the Trojan Horse for Federalized Education Control
Education in America was originally the province of parents and churches. "Homeschooling" was the norm from colonial times through the mid-1800's, and a classic education was the model.
Posted in Education, Federal
Tagged Abington Township School District v. Schempp, Common Core, ESEA, Jimmy Carter, John Dewey, National Education Association, Noah Webster
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Order Bulk Voter Guides Now
We are currently taking orders for our 2016 Primary Election Voter Guide. The non-partisan IFI Voter Guide helps voters know more about the positions of candidates who are seeking their vote on March 15, 2016. It will also soon be available online at www.illinoisfamily.org.
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Posted in IFI News, Illinois Politics
Tagged Common Core, Houghton-Mifflin-Harcourt
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SURPRISE! Thousand-Page Education-Funding Bill Passes U.S. House
A 1,061-page rewrite of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), which is better known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB), suddenly popped up in the House on Monday and was voted on late Wednesday, passing 359-64. All 64 “no” votes were cast by Republicans.
At over 1,000 pages, S. 1177, the Every Child Achieves Act (ECAA) [also known as the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA)], like Obamacare, was too lengthy to read and digest in just two days, and yet House Republicans rammed it forward despite Paul Ryan’s prior assurances that as House speaker he would provide …
Posted in Education, Federal
Tagged Baby Common Core, Common Core, Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Erin Tuttle, Every Child Achieves Act, Grover Whitehurst, head start, No Child Left Behind, Truth in American Education
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Common Core: Beyond Rote
As we’ve noted before, when proponents of the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms try to make the case for the program, they often end up giving material to its opponents.
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Tagged AAUP, Accuracy in Academia, Common Core, Common Core State Standards, education
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Dumbed-Down Common Core
Big name Republicans and putative conservatives signing onto the Obama Administration’s Common Core education reforms in the belief that they will raise standards in public schools may want to entertain the possibility that they will actually lower them.