Tag Archives: achievement gap
Common Core: They Want Your Kids
The George Soros-founded and funded Center for American Progress (CAP) report serves this effort: to expand the role of public schools, fulfilling Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s vision of “community schools” on a national scale.
Posted in Common Core, Education, News and Analysis, Uncategorized
Tagged achievement gap, An Idea Factory for the Democrats, Bob Dreyfuss, Center for American Progress, Clinton White House in Exile, Common Core Implementation, Common Core Math, Community Schools, Fordham Foundation, Gates Foundation, George Soros, Hillary Clinton, John Podesta, Neera Tanden, Obama administration, Obama's Favorite Think-Tank, Teachers as Facilitators, the Nation magazine
Common Core: What’s Behind Arne Duncan’s Race Card?
During a November speech, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan claimed that opposition to the “Common Core State Standards” was coming from “white, suburban moms” upset because their children were no longer as “brilliant” and their schools no longer as “good” as they thought they were.
Common Core: Teaching to the New Test- Part III
Common Core basically is the “student-centered” learning based on the ideas of progressive education theorist John Dewey, and disproven by the numerous studies analyzed by Jeanne Chall.
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Tagged achievement gap, AERA, American Educational Research Association, Arne Duncan, behavioral modification, Bill Ayers, collectivism, Common Core, Common Core curriculum, comprehension and collaboration, consensus building, E.D. Hirsch, Education Secretary, ELA, English Language Arts, Hugo Chavez, individual excellence, James Heckman, Linda Darling-Hammond, Obama's Secretary of Education, Paul Tough, Perry Preschool Project, Weatherman-turned-education-professor
