I have never been a huge proponent of government schools. However, as parents, we have to make decisions based on our situations. Due to various reasons, we sent our kids to public schools. The original plan was to move to homeschool education once they were older and a little more self-sufficient. But something frightening happened…
Sometimes the best way to go forward is to go backward. In 1899, the population of Boonville, North Carolina was under 200. It was a tiny crossroads town in the middle of farming country. It was also the home of the Yadkin Valley Institute and School of Business, which 20 years later would become a…
Blake Neff Conservative activist James O’Keefe has released a new undercover video, which he says proves Common Core education standards are simply a play by textbook publishers to make money by selling modified textbooks. O’Keefe’s Project Veritas first released his video Tuesday morning through The Daily Mail. The video shows an undercover Veritas reporter interviewing Diane Barrow, a West Coast sales…
A new undercover video that is part of a series on Common Core shows a sales executive from Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt and others from the educational publishing industry candidly remarking that their industry is “all about the money” and not educating children. The Houghton-Mifflin Harcourt executive actually cackles that she “hates kids” before confirming that he industry…
By Lina Bryce Common Core – or more appropriately dubbed “Common Horror”- has motivated a legion of parents to share photos of some of the dumbest assignments their children are given for homework in public schools. It has made math the most abhorrent subject to any child who might otherwise enjoy it and even some revisionist history. If there…
Follow TLR on Google+ No wonder Indiana just backed out of implementing Common Core. With the curriculum’s unfathomable learning techniques and overall ineptitude, parents are making their frustrations known. In a photo posted to a conservative Facebook page, one father with extensive knowledge of “higher math applications ” could not even attempt to work out…
Common Core by any Other Name is Just as Weak Common Core has been meeting fierce opposition from parents and teachers since its failed rollout, with even the President of the National Education Association calling it “completely botched“. Now, instead of focusing on ways to improve the program, legislators are instead attempting to “rebrand” Common…
ALBANY, N.Y.–Critics of the new education standards demanded by Common Core have gained traction at the state and national level this week. New York legislators announced yesterday to state officials that the “flawed rollout” should delay Common Core’s implementation for two years. Senate Republican leader Dean Skelos (R-Rockville Centre) agreed that students should be better…
Washington, D.C.–At an event last Friday, Paul Reville, a Harvard professor and former secretary of education in Massachusetts, used the platform to make some assertions about Common Core, and those who are against it. The Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal think tank, hosted the event where Reville made comments that ruffled feathers on…
Jennifer Hall took to Twitter this week to vent her frustrations over her daughter’s ridiculous math homework provided by Common Core. Hall’s 3rd grader is just learning fractions for the first time, but this assignment is likely to leave any child more confused than they were before. My 3rd grader’s #CommonCore math homework. Note that…