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…
“I’ve already called the police,” principal explains. Follow TLR on Google+ ST. LOUIS, MO. – Niakea Williams was lying in bed when she got a phone call from her son’s teacher. “Michael was panicking,” she told KMOV, and went on to explain her son suffers from Asperger’s syndrome. When she reached Walnut Grove elementary school…
The Next Generation in Gun Safety PUEBLO COUNTY, CO– Believe it or not, there was a time in our nation’s history when the headline of this article would have done little to stir controversy. Gun safety and training in public schools was considered standard in the first half of the twentieth century. In 1975, New…
Student Dragged Like Animal BRIDGEPORT, CT–A disturbing video has been made available to parents of students at Jettie Tisdale Elementary in Connecticut. Principal Carmen Perez Dickson can be seen on camera dragging two kindergartners through the halls on separate occasions. “She drag my daughter like she was some type of animal,” said Nakeya Hargrove, the…
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…