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Common Core … making math as difficult as possible [Darleen Click]

Is it any wonder the Common Core testing is still on the level of national secrets? Well America, the Common Core-aligned standardized tests that Common Core supporters have zealously trumpeted as college-related and so dramatically superior to all previous standardized tests are finally starting to trickle out for public consumption. New York is one state that has released some Common Core tests. The tests for elementary school kids remain strictly

“If you like your children, you can keep your children …” [Darleen Click]

Well, this really makes me feel even more warm and fuzzy about Common Core. In addressing criticism of the Common Core national education standards, a panelist at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank, said critics were a “tiny minority” who opposed standards altogether, which was unfair because “the children belong to all of us.” […] Paul Reville, the former secretary of education for Massachusetts and a

Dad doesn’t follow Potemkin Townhall Q&A charade … [Darleen Click]

… ejected, arrested, facing 6 months in jail and $2,500 fine. A father in Towson, Maryland, was forcefully ejected from a local town hall forum for asking the wrong question. Robert Small had concerns over the Common Core education initiative, feeling that it was dumbing down the curriculum in his local school district. “My question is, how does lowering America’s educational standards prepare kids for community college?” asked Small, before