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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.
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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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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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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 …
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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.
