Tag: Common Core

Who’s Afraid of Campbell Brown?

Mark Hemingway · December 7, 2015 5:00 am

Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have signed a pledge against the Common Core educational standards, Sunshine State News reports. (AP Photo)

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Cruz, Rubio sign pledge against federal role in Common Core

Jason Russell · November 25, 2015 5:01 pm

Massachusetts would rather spend millions of dollars and delay testing by a year than stick with a test aligned with Common Core education standards, The New York Times reports. (AP Photo)

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Tide shifting against Common Core

Jason Russell · November 23, 2015 4:43 pm

Having already been through a months-long legislative process, the smooth, two-day conference committee was surely a relief for members and staff on the House and Senate education committees. (AP Photo)

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Fix to No Child Left Behind passes conference committee

Jason Russell · November 19, 2015 7:02 pm

Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, will holdÂ a hearing on legislation dubbed the Protecting Local Business Opportunity Act. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Congress cramming to finish education bill

Sean Higgins · November 19, 2015 1:14 am

Common Core math standards have drawn the ire of math professors in Kentucky's public universities. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

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College professors getting upset about Common Core

Jason Russell · November 9, 2015 5:01 pm

States whose students took Common Core tests in the 2014 to 2015 school year scored worse on the Nation's Report Card in data released Wednesday, according to Brookings Senior Fellow Russ Whitehurst.Â (AP Photo/Christine Armario, File)

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Scholar blames Common Core tests for educational decline

Jason Russell · October 29, 2015 4:52 pm

Jindal added that liberals don't trust the American people, and that's how the country got Common Core.Â (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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Jindal knocks Obama’s education policy at GOP debate

Jason Russell · October 28, 2015 11:49 pm

Massachusetts would rather spend millions of dollars and delay testing by a year than stick with a test aligned with Common Core education standards, The New York Times reports. (AP Photo)

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Americans like Common Core, but support is falling

Jason Russell · October 22, 2015 4:01 am

"It's unfortunate that many of the attacks against the Common Core have not really focused on what the Common Core is," saidÂ Bill Gates. (Photo by Greg Allen/Invision/AP)

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Bill Gates: Attacks on Common Core drown out the facts

Jason Russell · October 7, 2015 7:23 pm

A check written by a father opposed to Common CoreÂ went viral last weekÂ when the father used "Common Core math" to write a check to his son's school.

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Common Core’s common problem

Jason Russell · September 29, 2015 4:01 am

In this July 21, 2014 file photo, students at a summer reading academy at Buchanan elementary school work in the computer lab at the school in Oklahoma City. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki,File)

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What exactly are the Common Core standards?

Jason Russell · September 1, 2015 6:15 pm