The Dead-End Road Called Pre-K
After President Obama in his 2013 State of the Union address called for a new federal entitlement for taxpayer-funded free preschool or pre-K for all 4-year-olds, we thought…
Category: Education
Common Core’s Growing Unpopularity
The highly acclaimed school standards called Common Core are becoming so unpopular that they may soon be politically untouchable. The critics are piling on from Glenn Beck to…
Education Reporter – August 2014
Common Core Becomes a Nightmare
Americans are waking up to how bad Common Core really is for education, but its nightmare does not go away quickly. Liberal education bureaucrats ("educrats") are now trying…
Education Reporter – July 2014
Growing Rejection of Common Core
The most controversial current issue in education today is clearly Common Core. It's being more hotly debated than bullying, zero tolerance, sex ed, abortion, or even school lunches.
My Child Is Not Common
"My Child Is Not Common" are the words on the attention-getting signs carried by a group of white and African-American mothers protesting the adoption of the aggressively promoted…
Education Reporter – May 2014
Education Reporter — April 2014
One Man’s Money: Bill Gates, Education, and Common Core Bill Gates wrote in USA Today on February 12, 2014: “we’re in the grip of mythology.” He claims that…
Why Moms Are Protesting Common Core
One of the major reasons why Moms are vigorously opposing schools adopting the much ballyhooed Common Core standards is that they are tied to the gathering and storing…