N.Y. Parents Keep Thousands of Students Out of Common Core Testing
Parents kept tens of thousands of students out of Common Core testing in schools throughout the city and state of New York Tuesday in a campaign organizers hope reached the goal...
Education
Senate Committee Garnering Bipartisan Support for Education Bill
Senators Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Patty Murray (D-Wash.) are making progress in garnering bipartisan support for an education bill unveiled last week — the Every Child Achieves Act of 2015 — that would...
UN Pushes Common Core-style Global Education Regime
About one third of the world’s governments and dictatorships are on track to meet United Nations education targets aiming to change the values of humanity as part of its “Education for...
Seattle Students Resist New Common Core Tests
Nathan Hale High School in Seattle has taken the lead in resisting the new “Smarter Balanced Assessment” Common Core Tests being foisted on the city's high schools. ...
Feds Say Boston Failed to Educate English-language Learner Students
A recent review of the city of Boston’s education programs by the U.S. Departments of Education and Justice accused the city of failing to provide sufficient specialized education for children whose...
Bellingham, Wash., Adopts Full-day Kindergarten With Common Core
The Bellingham, Washington, school board announced that it has adopted a full-day kindergarten using the Common Core curriculum called HighScope. ...
Common Core Rebellion to “Opt Out” of Tests Spreads Nationwide
As the federally funded Common Core testing regime is rolled out across much of the nation, a growing rebellion against the tests and accompanying data-mining scheme is sweeping the country as...
In Resignation, Oklahoma Teacher Blows Whistle on Common Core
In a scathing resignation letter, Oklahoma City math teacher Juli Sylvan blasted the controversial Common Core standards and exposed numerous serious problems with the Obama-backed scheme — including the fact that...
American Millennials Score Poorly Against Other Nations in Skills Assessment
A recently released report from the Educational Testing Service (ETS) indicated that American “millennials” (those born after 1980 who were 16 to 34 years of age at the time of the...
San Francisco Seeks to Punish Catholic Schools for Being Catholic
It's okay with the secular left that Catholic schools exist — as long as they teach a government-school curriculum and government-school values. ...
New York Public Schools to Close for Muslim Holidays
New York City Major Bill de Blasio announced that the city's public schools will be closed for two Muslim holy days, Eid al-Fitr and Eid al-Adha. ...
Atheist Dawkins: Gov’t Must Protect Children From Religious Parents
Richard Dawkins, author of The God Delusion, now wants to "save" children from what he sees as their parents' religious delusions. ...
Advanced Placement History Standards Create Controversy in Oklahoma
Conservative critics say these new standards have an overall theme that America's history is simply that of one oppression after another. ...
Common Core Testing Regime Ruled Unconstitutional
In a development with massive implications for the Obama administration’s ongoing attempt at nationalizing education with Common Core, a Missouri judge ruled this week that the federally funded testing regime for...
Conservative Centers Quietly Invading U.S. Universities
Today there are about 150 college centers or institutions devoted to promoting conservative or free market ideas to America’s undergraduates. ...