N.J. Gov. Chris Christie’s Costly Education Proposals
On January 23, during a visit to the Dudley Family School in Camden — a poverty-stricken city with a high school-dropout rate — New Jersey Governor Chris Christie proposed several new...
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N.Y. Common Core Web Link Sends Kids to Explicit Sex Quiz
A link on a New York state Common Core resources web page sends kids to sexually explicitly questionnaires. ...
Holder, Duncan Unveil Race-based School Discipline Guidelines
Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced the first-ever guidelines for discipline in public schools, contending that present discipline disproportionately affects minorities. ...
OECD: U.S. Schools Mediocre on Education Compared to World
American high-school students scored "average" in a standardized test created by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, when compared with the rest of the developed world. American students scored below...
Are the Feds Reaping Windfall Profits From Student Loans?
The Federal Government made $41.3 billion on its subsidized student-loan program in fiscal 2013. Or did it? It has been argued that if more realistic accounting methods were applied to the...
UN Academic Impact Joins CFR to Infiltrate U.S. Classrooms
The United Nations and the CFR are joining forces to train American youth to be good "global citizens." ...
Obama Education Chief Sparks Fury with Common Core Comments
Obama administration Secretary of Education Arne Duncan unleashed a firestorm of outrage after claiming that opposition to the nationalization of schooling through “Common Core” standards, foisted on states via taxpayer-funded federal...
Top Catholic Scholars Slam Common Core
As the uproar grows against the Obama administration-pushed Common Core nationalized education standards, a coalition of more than 130 prominent Catholic scholars and professors outlined its firm opposition and is now...
School Official Tries to Label Complaining Parent a “Neo-Nazi”
Now it seems that just complaining about your child’s homework assignment can get a finger pointed at you — for being a neo-Nazi. ...
On the Defensive, Shills for Common Core Hype Distractions
With opposition to Obama administration-backed Common Core nationalized education boiling over across the political spectrum, desperate lawmakers in Wisconsin who support the controversial scheme — even after devastating testimony exposed myriad...
Debunking Myth of Common Core Education as “State Led” (Video)
Facing a growing tsunami of opposition across the country, proponents of nationalizing K-12 schooling through the Obama administration-pushed Common Core education standards regularly claim that the educational “reform” scheme is “state-led.”...
Common Core: People vs. Big Government, Big Business, and Billionaires
With recent public hearings on national Common Core education standards by Wisconsin lawmakers in October, another element of the national battle is becoming increasingly obvious: This has become a fight largely...
Debunking the Myth that Common Core is State Led
VIDEO - In this short video produced by The New American, veteran educator Mary Black addresses the commonly held myth that the Obama administration-pushed plot to nationalize education through Common Core...
Alongside Common Core, Feds Will Vacuum Up Data on Kids (Video)
Alongside the highly controversial nationalization of education via the Obama administration-backed “Common Core,” the federal government is bribing and bullying state governments into collecting huge amounts of private data on students...
Common Core: Teaching Kids What — Not How — to Think
VIDEO - In this video about the Obama administration-backed Common Core education standards, veteran educator Mary Black highlights troubling elements including the teaching styles and the standards, saying they could lead...