California’s Common Core Mistake
Williamson M. Evers, Ze’ev Wurman, HOOVER INSTITUTE, Wednesday, May 9, 2018
The Common Core curriculum-content standards are a national listing of topics that students are expected to learn in the subjects of English and mathematics. An independent initiative of three Washington, D.C.-based organizations created the national standards, but they were endorsed and promoted by the Obama-era U.S. Department of Education. The standards were released in June 2010. Their summer launch meant that teachers and parents did not have much of an opportunity to discuss their merits and drawbacks. Abiding by the standards was necessary for states to be eligible for massive federal grants. California adopted the national standards and fully implemented them in 2014-2015. This was a mistake. Looking at how the state’s students performed in math before and after the standards were implemented, it’s clear that...CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE

Bill Gates Tacitly Admits His Common Core Experiment Was A Failur
Joy Pullmann, THE FEDERALIST, October 25, 2017
Bill and Melinda Gates run the world’s richest nonprofit, with assets at $40 billion and annual giving around $4 billion. They have helped pioneer a mega-giving strategy called “advocacy philanthropy,” which aims to use private donations to shift how governments structure their activities and use taxpayer dollars.  Since 2009, the Gates Foundation’s primary U.S. activity has focused on establishing and implementing Common Core, a set of centrally mandated curriculum rules and tests for what children are to learn in each K-12 grade, with the results linked to school and teacher ratings and punitive measures for low performers. The Gates Foundation has spent more than...CLICK HERE TO CONTINUE