Hundreds of frustrated high school students from several New Mexico schools have decided to join a growing number of students across America who are walking out on Common Core assessment tests that they say are excessive, a waste of teaching time, and detrimental to their overall education.
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Common Core Boosts Homeschool Numbers
New evidence is showing that the ranks of homeschooling children are swelling since the imposition of the controversial Common Core State Standards at local public schools across America.
Two More States Dump Common Core
The governors or South Carolina and Oklahoma have signed bills that will drop Common Core standards from their schools and authorize their state departments of education to develop new curriculums by 2016.
Parents Unite to Fight Common Core
More than 1,000 parents in the Archdiocese of Milwaukee have launched a campaign calling upon diocesan officials to reverse their decision to implement the troubled Common Core curriculum in their schools.
Women of Grace® Plays Role in Bishops’ Concern About Common Core!
Women of Grace® and other concerned lay groups have cause to rejoice as news breaks that the U.S. bishops have heard their concerns and released a new FAQ paper on the controversial Common Core State Standards (CCSS) that acknowledges the “growing concerns about the effect of these standards on Catholic schools in our country.”
Parents: Beware of Common Core Porn!
Experts are sounding the alarm about the presence of pornographic materials that are included in the exemplars recommended by Common Core State Standards (CCSS).
Gates Foundation Funds Common Core in Catholic Schools
The Cardinal Newman Society has discovered that the National Catholic Education Association (NCEA) was granted more than $100,000 by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to support implementation of the controversial Common Core standards in diocesan schools.
Catholic Scholars Ask Bishops to Reject Common Core
A group of Catholic scholars has taken the extraordinary step of writing to all U.S. bishops asking them to withdraw their schools from the “deeply flawed” Common Core curriculum.
